Design Research: A Disciplined Conversation

A Disciplined Approach to Real-Time Systems Design

Tardis is a generic framework that prescribes mechanisms needed during software development to cater for “non-functional” system requirements. These requirements have been treated in an ad hoc manner in the past but the increasing importance of safety-critical embedded systems demands more rigorous approaches. The tardis framework mandates the inclusion of non-functional goals during initial re...

Design in Observational Research on the Discourse of Medicine: Toward Disciplined Interdisciplinarity

Perspectives on critical design: a conversation with

This paper features an edited conversation with designers Ralph Ball and Maxine Naylor. It explores their thinking in relation to critical design. In the preface to Form Follows Idea (Ball & Naylor, 2005) Jeremy Myerson describes Ball and Naylor as being regarded among Britain’s most thoughtful furniture designers. In 1985 Ball formed a design partnership with Maxine Naylor a reputable experime...

Conversation analysis as research methodology

CDT: A Tool for Agent Conversation Design

The design, implementation, and verification of agent conversations (i.e., multiagent sequences of language primitives which are intended to together achieve some goal) can be difficult and exacting, and often requires skills which agent developers do not possess. In this paper, we describe the architecture of a planned software tool that is designed to help developers with this task. Our propo...