Design Research, an Oxymoron?

Collective creativity: wisdom or oxymoron?

Purpose – The purpose of the paper is to demonstrate ways in which collective creativity and individual creativity exist in an “and/both” rather than in an “either/or” relationship. Design / methodology approach – This study uses and interrelates a number of dualities using “metalectics”, the principal task of which is to balance seemingly conflicting opposites by revealing them and locating th...

Top-Down Unsupervised Image Segmentation (it sounds like oxymoron, but actually it is not)

Pattern recognition is generally assumed as an interaction of two inversely directed image-processing streams: the bottom-up information details gathering and localization (segmentation) stream, and the top-down information features aggregation, association and interpretation (recognition) stream. Inspired by recent evidence from biological vision research and by the insights of Kolmogorov Comp...

Is Law and Liberation an oxymoron?

Channels as Enzymes: Oxymoron and Tautology

______________________________ 1 Some important currents do not move through channels: (1) fluxes driven by coupled transporters like the sodium pump and (2) capacitive currents flowing across myelin or membranes, during propagation of the nerve action potential. Journal of Membrane Biology 115 1-12 (1990) Available on arXiv as http://arxiv.org/pdf/1112.2363 Channels as Enzymes: Oxymoron and Ta...

Designing for appropriation

Ethnographies often show that users appropriate and adapt technology in ways never envisaged by the designers, or even deliberately subverting the designers’ intentions. As design can never be complete, such appropriation is regarded as an important and positive phenomenon. However designing for appropriation is often seen as an oxymoron; it appears impossible to design for the unexpected. In t...