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Blind Evaluation
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Abstract
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| Many efforts on design research focuses on developing methods for design, while little research has been done on how students experience method use. This study looks at the experience of young design students using a specific design method, the empathic lead user method. This method relies on inhibiting certain senses in order to provide designers with alternative perspectives on user needs. We introduce the theoretical background behind the use of this specific method of design, and review results from related literature. In our study, the group using the empathic lead user method (n=26), and a second control group (n=23) without method restriction, performed the same assignment. We find that for both groups there are no statistically significant differences between how able, motivated or confident they were with performing the assignment. In their own assessment of the results, we found statistically significant differences between student's evaluation of how innovative they thought their results were, but for the factors effort and satisfaction, both groups gave similar self-assessments. We discuss the results and present areas for future work. |
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Language
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English
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Source (book)
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Proceedings of the European Conference on Cognitive Ergonomics 2015 ECCE '15, 1-3 July, 2015, Warsaw, Poland
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Publication
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New York
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Association for Computing Machinery
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2015
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ISBN
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978-1-4503-3612-3
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DOI
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10.1145/2788412.2788419
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p. 1-7
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Article Reference
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7
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