This paper attempts to determine whether conditions amenable to successful selective interventions to capture cross-industry externalities are likely to be fulfilled in practice. Three criteria are proposed for good candidates for industrial promotion: that they have strong interindustry links to the rest of the economy, that they lead the rest of the economy in a causal sense, and that they be...

In this paper, we describe an undergraduate foundational course on design methodology, in which strong emphasis is given on the philosophical questioning on method, methodology and, more generally, on designing itself. The course approach and structure are accounted in short steps, as a preliminary case presented for further discussions in the HCI educators community.

Services are considered to be one of the key growth areas within local and global economies. Services and Service Design are emerging, crossing, and in some cases redefining disciplinary boundaries. Approaches to Service design have emerged that share HCI commitment to working with and for people albeit in the development of useful services, rather than IT artefacts. However there has been litt...

a Institute for Microelectronics, TU Wien, Gußhausstraße 27-29, A-1040 Vienna, Austria A.F.Ioffe Physical–Technical Institute, 26 Polytechnicheskaya Str., 194021 St.-Petersburg, Russia Christian Doppler Laboratory for Reliability Issues in Microelectronics at IUE, TU Wien, Gußhausstraße 27-29, A-1040 Vienna, Austria Austriamicrosystems AG, Unterpremstätten, Austria e Institute für Theoretische ...

Theoretical constructs are the foundational building blocks of theories and are utilized as a way of understanding and explaining phenomena. The use of theory and theoretical constructs to study health information technologies have varied based on research communities, research goals, and types of technology. Within the HCI community, there has been a long history of using theoretical construct...