Design Research

Design Research

The methods, tools, and theoretical underpinnings we have effect how and what we design. The aim of this work is to better understand design practice and to develop strategies and new modes of engaging both designers and consumers in a discourse to explore and develop situated responses to real-world conditions.

Related Publications

  1. A. Sheehan & C. A. Le Dantec. 2023. Making Meaning from the Digitalization of Blue-Collar Work. Proc. ACM Hum. Comput. Interact, 7, CSCW2, Article 345 (October 2023)
    (CSCW ’23: Best Paper)

  2. A. Alvarado Garcia, W. Wong-Villacres, M. Miceli, B. Hernández, and C. A. Le Dantec. 2023. Mobilizing Social Media Data: Reflections of a Researcher Mediating between Data and Organization. In Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’23), April 23–28, 2023, Hamburg, Germany. ACM.

  3. A. Rumsey, & C. A. Le Dantec. Manufacturing Change: The Impact of Virtual Environments on Real Organizations. In Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’20). ACM.

  4. M. Asad, C. A. Le Dantec. “This Is Shared Work:” Negotiating Boundaries in a Social Service Intermediary Organization. Media and Communication. 7(3), 2019.

  5. A. Rumsey and C. A. Le Dantec. Clearing the Smoke: The Changing Identities of Firefighters. Proceedings of the 2019 Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS ’19). ACM (2019).
    (Best Paper Honorable Mention)

  6. E. Corbett and C. A. Le Dantec. Towards a Design Framework for Trust in Digital Civics. Proceedings of the 2019 Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS ’19). ACM (2019).

  7. S. Kozubaev, F. Rochaix, C. DiSalvo, and C. A. Le Dantec. Spaces and Traces: Implications of Smart Technology in Public Housing. In Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’19). ACM

  8. C.A. Le Dantec. Infrastructures of Digital Civics: Transportation, Advocacy, and Mobile Computing. In M. Korn, W. Reïmann, T. R. hl, & D. Sittler (Eds.), Infrastructuring Publics. Springer VS, 2019.

  9. E. Corbett and C. A. Le Dantec. Exploring Trust in Digital Civics. In Proceedings of the 2018 on Designing Interactive Systems Conference 2018 (DIS ’18). ACM (2018). 9-20.

  10. V. Vlachokyriakos, R. Comber, C. Crivellar, N. Taylor, S. Kuznetsov, C.A. Le Dantec, J. Kim. Designing Alternative Systems for local Communities. CHI 2015: Proceedings of the 33rd international conference on Human factors in computing systems, Seoul, Korea. April 18–19, 2015.

  11. C. A. Le Dantec, S. Fox. Strangers at the Gate: Gaining Access, Building Rapport, and Co-Constructing Community-Based Research. In CSCW 2015: Proceedings of the ACM 2015 conference on Computer supported cooperative work, pages 1348–1358, New York, NY, USA, 2015. ACM.
    (Best Paper)

  12. M. Asad, & C. A. Le Dantec. Illegitimate Civic Participation: Supporting Community Activists on the Ground. In CSCW 2015: Proceedings of the ACM 2015 conference on Computer supported cooperative work, pages 1694–1703, New York, NY, USA, 2015. ACM.
    (Best Paper Honorable Mention)

  13. S. Fox, & C. A. Le Dantec. Community Historians: Scaffolding Community Engagement through Culture and Heritage. In DIS ’14: Proceedings of the conference on Designing interactive systems, pages 785–794, New York, NY, USA, 2014. ACM.

  14. M. Asad, S. Fox, & C. A. Le Dantec. Speculative Activist Technologies. In iConference 2014 Proceedings, pages 229–243, 2014.

  15. C. A. Le Dantec and C. DiSalvo. Infrastructuring and the formation of publics in participatory design. Social Studies of Science, 43(2):241–264, April 2013.

  16. C. A. Le Dantec. Situating design as social creation and cultural cognition. CoDesign. 6(4):207–224, December 2010.

  17. D. Reilly, S. Voida, M. McKeon, C. A. Le Dantec, P. Verma, C. Forslund, W. K. Edwards, E. D. Mynatt, and A. Mazalek. Space matters: Physical-Digital and Physical-Virtual Co-Design in inSpace. IEEE Pervasive Computing, 9(3):54–63, 2010.

  18. C. A. Le Dantec. Situated Design: Toward an Understanding of Design Through Social Creation and Cultural Cognition. In C&C ’09: Proceedings of the 7th ACM SIGCHI Conference on Creativity & Cognition, pages 69–78, New York, NY, USA, 2009. ACM.

  19. C. A. Le Dantec and E. Y. Do. The Mechanisms of Value Transfer in Design Meetings. Design Studies, 30(2):119–137, March 2009.

  20. C. A. Le Dantec and E. Y. Do. The Mechanisms of Value Transfer in Design Meetings. In J. McDonnell and P. Lloyd, editors, About: Designing – Analysing Design Meetings. Taylor and Francis, 2009.

  21. S. Voida, M. McKeon, C. A. Le Dantec, C. Forslund, P. Verma, B. McMillan, J. Bunde-Pedersen, W. K. Edwards, E. D. Mynatt, A. Mazalek. inSpace: Co-Designing the Physical and Digital Environment to Support Workplace Collaboration. GVU Technical Report; GIT-GVU-08-03. Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008.