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NextD WorkshopONE Summer Session 2008

NextD WorkshopONE Summer Session 2008. Saturday July 19, New York City. Registration Opens. http://www.nextd.org

Between Design Conference Palermo October

Between Design Conference (27-31 October 2008). Palermo, Sicily

Typevents Italy would like to announce the Between Design conference to all lovers of design, reminding you it will be held from October 27th to 31st in Palazzo Steri, Palermo, Sicily.

Penultimate call inter_multi_trans_actions

inter_multi_trans_actions emerging trends in post-disciplinary creative practice Thursday 26 June, 2008 Faculty of Engineering, Computing, and Creative Industries, Napier University Merchiston Campus 10 Colinton Road Edinburgh EH10 5DT

Research method tutorials (Cornell)

A large number of tutorial Web projects on research methods have been created by graduate students in Program Evaluation and Planning at Cornell University. Each of these projects teaches a specific research methods topic that the student selected. Students were instructed to write these tutorials for undergraduate or graduate student audiences that are new to social research methods. You can find them at http://www.socialresearchmethods.net/tutorial/tutorial.htm

User-centred Design Research Methods

There is an interesting article reporting a variety of design research methods used by practicing designers available at
http://www.cs.bath.ac.uk/~anneb/User-centred%20design%202000E&PDE.pdf

Int J of Virtual Reality

The IJVR (published quarterly) is a multimedia publication dedicated to the cooperative development and application of diverse technologies associated with virtual reality. See http://www.ijvr.org/index.html

Stolterman, E. (2008). The nature of design practice...

Stolterman, E. (2008). The nature of design practice and implications for interaction design research. International Journal of Design, 2(1), 55-65 at http://www.ijdesign.org/ojs/index.php/IJDesign

Qualitative research in information systems design

Michael Myers has collected a rich compendium of information on qualitative research methods at ISWorld Qualitative Research in Information Systems This aims to provide qualitative researchers in IS - and those wanting to know how to do qualitative research - with useful information on the conduct, evaluation and publication of qualitative research. You can find the main page at http://www.qual.auckland.ac.nz/

Action research and design

Gavin Melles from Swinburne has gathered together a useful archive of sources on action research and design at
http://www.2collab.com/group:action%20research%20and%20design

Design videos on allaboutdesignresearch.com

Design videos now available! Videos are useful in design education and in research training. Chosen design videos will be available on the left hand menu. Tell your research students to view them on www.allaboutdesignresearch.com If you have design videos that you feel should be widely available please email me, Best wishes, Terry