On Legitimacy: Designer as minor scientist

Aysar Ghassan; Mark Blythe

doi:10.1145/2468356.2468735

On Legitimacy: Designer as minor scientist

Aysar Ghassan, Mark Blythe

Northumbria University

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Abstract

User experience research has recently been characterized in two camps, model-based and design-based, with contrasting approaches to measurement and evaluation. This paper argues that the two positions can be constructed in terms of Deleuze & Guattari’s “royal science” and “minor science”. It is argued that the “reinvention” of cultural probes is an example of a minor scientific methodology reconceptualised as a royal scientific “technology”. The distinction between royal and minor science provides insights into the nature of legitimacy within.

Original language	English
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2468356.2468735
Publication status	Published - Apr 2013
Event	CHI 2013 (ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems) - Paris Duration: 28 Apr 2013 → … http://care.cs.columbia.edu/chi2013health/?page_id=243

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Conference	CHI 2013 (ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems)
Period	28/04/13 → …
Internet address	http://care.cs.columbia.edu/chi2013health/?page_id=243

Keywords

Deleuze
Guattari
legitimacy
cultural probes
user experience

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