Abstract
his paper reports the findings of research aimed at identifying appropriate ways forward in building design theory about collaborative design activities that take into account new research findings from cognitive neuro-science about the roles of affect, emotion and feeling in human interactions and perceptions. Human affective processes are essential to many aspects of collaborative designing. These include: individual design cognition; communication between collaborators and stakeholders; individual understanding, valuing and judging of elements of design problems and solutions; optimisation processes; individual and group closure processes; power-based/ hegemonic manipulations; and negotiations about elements of design problem, design solution and design processes. The paper focuses on neuro-physiological research into affective foundations of human activities such as intuition, creative thought, imagination, empathy, person-to- person communication, information transfer and knowledge building, decision- making, perception, behaviour response and cognition. Each of these is significant in collaborative designing. Earlier research by the author drew attention to the importance of human physiologically based somato-sensory affects/feelings in individuals’ design activities. This paper extends the earlier research into theory making into the area of collaborative design. The paper is grounded in prior epistemological research focused on the development of epistemologically and terminologically coherent foundations for research and theory making about designing and designs.
Citation
Love, T. (2004) Collaborative Design Activity: The Inclusion of Human Affect Processes in Design Theory About Collaboration in Design., in Redmond, J., Durling, D. and de Bono, A (eds.), Futureground - DRS International Conference 2004, 17-21 November, Melbourne, Australia. https://dl.designresearchsociety.org/drs-conference-papers/drs2004/researchpapers/164
Collaborative Design Activity: The Inclusion of Human Affect Processes in Design Theory About Collaboration in Design.
his paper reports the findings of research aimed at identifying appropriate ways forward in building design theory about collaborative design activities that take into account new research findings from cognitive neuro-science about the roles of affect, emotion and feeling in human interactions and perceptions. Human affective processes are essential to many aspects of collaborative designing. These include: individual design cognition; communication between collaborators and stakeholders; individual understanding, valuing and judging of elements of design problems and solutions; optimisation processes; individual and group closure processes; power-based/ hegemonic manipulations; and negotiations about elements of design problem, design solution and design processes. The paper focuses on neuro-physiological research into affective foundations of human activities such as intuition, creative thought, imagination, empathy, person-to- person communication, information transfer and knowledge building, decision- making, perception, behaviour response and cognition. Each of these is significant in collaborative designing. Earlier research by the author drew attention to the importance of human physiologically based somato-sensory affects/feelings in individuals’ design activities. This paper extends the earlier research into theory making into the area of collaborative design. The paper is grounded in prior epistemological research focused on the development of epistemologically and terminologically coherent foundations for research and theory making about designing and designs.