Development of Prototyping Methods to Support Co-designers' Acquisition of First-Person Perspectives in Co-design

2022 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 20K20116
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Review Section: Basic Section 90010:Design-related
• Research Institution: Tokyo Institute of Technology
• Principal Investigator: Taoka Yuki 東京工業大学, 環境・社会理工学院, 助教 (50845766)
• Project Period (FY): 2020-04-01 – 2023-03-31
• Keywords: 共創デザイン / 当事者視点 / 課題定義 / アイデア発想 / プロトタイプ

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This research project researched on methods for people who do not have the skills that designers acquire through training (co-designers) to discover and solve problems from the perspective of users who are not themselves. This enabled us to realize a method for taking the user's point of view. Specifically, in addition to observing the thinking process from the user's point of view based on the user's information, we developed a method that facilitates taking the user's point of view using IoT devices. In addition, by using video data, we developed a method to put oneself and others in the viewpoints of the people concerned at the time when they were acting. Through this research, we have laid the foundation for constructing a method for dispatching issues from the viewpoints of the people concerned and developing ideas based on these issues.

Free Research Field

デザイン学

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

当事者視点に立った課題定義及びプロトタイピングは、ユーザーの課題が多様化する現代において、潜在的な課題を発見し解決策を提案するために重要な役割を果たす可能性がある。研究成果に基づき、当事者視点を取得しながらユーザー課題を解決することによって、社会課題の解決に大きく貢献する可能性がある。