Design Based Research (DBR) is a new and still-emerging approach to research about design, learning, and allied areas. This article reports one designer’s experiences within a DBR project. Whereas most reports of DBR focus on the outcomes of the design itself, the current paper offers a hermeneutical perspective by focusing on the personal narrative of the designer. Using Edelson’s (2002) categ...

Software process improvement (SPI) is around for decades: frameworks are proposed, success factors are studied, and experiences have been reported. However, the sheer mass of concepts, approaches, and standards published over the years overwhelms practitioners as well as researchers. What is out there? Are there new emerging approaches? What are open issues? Still, we struggle to answer the que...

The study of human categorization is contentious because it matters. How we understand the processes that give rise to categories is at the very core of how we understand human cognition. Over the past several decades, there has been growing concern that the assumptions that define and distinguish competing theories may notbe quite right. These assumptions are based on the traditional metaphor ...