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Social and Contextual Interaction Design

Within the StudioLab the SCID group focuses on designing everyday aware products across diverse cultures and people that are contextually aware of the user in a social environment. Design research is focused on stepping away from the product 'as such' and seeing it in relation to a system which integrates products, people and environments. Central to the study on contextually aware products is the need to: (1) gain knowledge on how information relating to the users tasks and activities can be modelled, (2) consider how interaction can be shared between the user and system, and (3) develop rich, persuasive, and engaging forms of user-product communication. The group is focused on interaction design techniques and concepts in relation to using smart products and environment design to Shape and Maintain social and environmental sustainability. The SCID group is active in the research program on Sustainable Living / Work and in the User Experience program.

Shaping sustainable behavior, focuses on how the user can be influenced to use products or services which provide a fulfilling user experience while reducing usage of natural resources and environmental impact.  Issues such as product usability, physical design of products and interfaces, and social-psychological techniques to change attitudes and behaviors are included here. For example, recent work in India focused on developing a public health information booth to bridge the information divide between health workers and rural villagers. Users interacted with the booth using a tangible interface where media was presented across a range of familiar formats such as puppet shows, street theater, guru talks, and village chief presentations (Parmar et al., 2009).

Maintaining Quality of Living focuses on the role of products and environments in structurally maintaining or improving well being, over an extended period of time, in work and living environments. The life cycle of products and services can be extended by recognizing and adapting to changing user needs. Similarly, the user environment can be adapted to accommodate and support users at home and at work. For example, the question of how social connectivity can be fostered among the elderly living alone is being examined in the IOP-MMI research project, IndependentAtHome, as one of several future smart home application scenarios.  The EU/Cartesius project, Energy Valley, examines how semi-remote areas can be socio-economically revitalized and connected via water tourism. Research on restorative environments is currently an area of collaboration between the faculty of Architecture and Industrial Design Engineering, which focuses on hospital patient waiting rooms in terms of lighting and physical artifacts such as seating.
 

 

Group leader

Prof. Dr., MSc. David Keyson

Landberstraat 15
Room 10-3B-6
2628 CD Delft
The Netherlands

T +31 15 2783646
F +31 15 2787316


Staff

Juan Jimenez
Aadjan van der Helm
Marc de Hoogh
Rob Luxen
Natalia Romero
Martijn Vastenburg
Thomas Visser

Collaborations

Hyperbody Group

Projects

Smart Surroundings
Independent@Home

News

Vikram Parmar, wins best paper award at Persuasive Technology, 2008

See the flowerly video at http://www.vimeo.com/2275530

See David's inaugural speech at: http://studiolab.io.tudelft.nl/sustainableliving/program

Download the new visualisation of StudioHome
Living Lab

See ITD 2010 student work atL http://www.youtube.com/ideitd

Last update: Sunday, December 11, 2011 at 1:21:23 PM