- Katherine Bennett of Art Center College of Design, presented her work-in-progress on teaching user research methods to design students. This focuses on providing tools for self-guidance, such as the diagram pictured above, that helps students choose the right generative method for answering particular research questions. Bennett has also created an "opportunity deck" that assists students in analyzing research data from non-designer perspectives such as business and engineering (pictured below). For more information, see her blog, Design Investigations.
- For the expert design researcher, Steve Wilcox from Design Science presented his team's work in collaboration with Ethinco Endo Surgery (ESS) on a comprehensive ethnographic research project for a new harmonic scalpel (earning an IDEA gold). The surgical data gathering, collected from 21 international surgical observations included three-camera synchronized video capture (FieldCREW pre-cursor?) and heart-rate monitoring of the surgeons to correlate tasks with stress level. The focus of the presentation was on the visualization of the research data to make complex surgical tasks and activities readily visible.
