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2017-09-15

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Eren, Gizem Hediye
Korkut, Fatma

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In an educational context, one of the design project considerations tutors take into account is the familiarity of design students with the target user group and use environment. For encouraging them to cultivate empathy in diverse human experiences, tutors make students engage in projects involving user groups who are not familiar to them. During the initial phases of a design process, design students need to explore the problem domain in order to form a sufficient background. There are various tools and methods rooted in ethnographic methods or participatory approaches that can be employed in this exploratory phase to get familiar with the users; however, from an educational perspective, design problems focusing on special user groups such as elderly, children and people with disabilities involve various ethical considerations and sensitive issues regarding access to users and use environment. In cases where design students do not have direct access to users for design exploration, they utilize other sources such as user-generated videos or documentaries that are readily available online. Based on the literature and semi-structured interviews conducted with six design students, this paper discusses the potential and the limitations of user-generated video content available on the internet as design research material for exploring unfamiliar design problem domains, and exemplifies the ways in which design students make use of it. The early findings indicate that online user-generated video material has the potential as a supplementary resource for exploring unfamiliar user groups and usage contexts.

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/74979

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Department of Industrial Design, Conference / Seminar