Lingua Francas for design: sacred places and pattern languages Export

@inproceedings{citeulike:485958, abstract = {A central challenge in interaction design has to do with its diversity. Designers, engineers, managers, marketers, researchers and users all have important contributions to make to the design process. But at the same time they lack shared concepts, experiences and perspectives. How is the process of design-which requires communication, negotiation and compromise-to effectively proceed in the absence of a common ground? I argue that an important role for the interaction designer is to help stakeholders in the design process to construct alingua franca.To explore this issue, which has received remarkably little attention in HCI, I turn to work in urban design and architecture. I begin by discussing a case study in community design, reported by Hester [10], that demonstrates the power of alingua francafor a particular design project. I then describe the concept of pattern languages and discuss how they might be adapted to the needs of interaction design in general, and used, in particular, as meta-languages for generatinglingua francasfor particular design projects.}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, author = {Erickson, Thomas}, booktitle = {DIS '00: Proceedings of the conference on Designing interactive systems}, citeulike-article-id = {485958}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=347794}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/347642.347794}, citeulike-linkout-2 = {http://www.pliant.org/personal/Tom_Erickson/DesignLinguaFranca.html}, doi = {10.1145/347642.347794}, isbn = {1581132190}, keywords = {alexander, design, designpatterns, languages, mathgamespatterns, mexicali, patterns, software}, pages = {357--368}, posted-at = {2006-02-10 12:12:09}, priority = {2}, publisher = {ACM Press}, title = {Lingua Francas for design: sacred places and pattern languages}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/347642.347794}, year = {2000} }

TY - CONF ID - citeulike:485958 L3 - citeulike-article-id:485958 N2 - A central challenge in interaction design has to do with its diversity. Designers, engineers, managers, marketers, researchers and users all have important contributions to make to the design process. But at the same time they lack shared concepts, experiences and perspectives. How is the process of design-which requires communication, negotiation and compromise-to effectively proceed in the absence of a common ground? I argue that an important role for the interaction designer is to help stakeholders in the design process to construct alingua franca.To explore this issue, which has received remarkably little attention in HCI, I turn to work in urban design and architecture. I begin by discussing a case study in community design, reported by Hester [10], that demonstrates the power of alingua francafor a particular design project. I then describe the concept of pattern languages and discuss how they might be adapted to the needs of interaction design in general, and used, in particular, as meta-languages for generatinglingua francasfor particular design projects. SN - 1581132190 AD - New York, NY, USA EP - 368 TI - Lingua Francas for design: sacred places and pattern languages PB - ACM Press T2 - DIS '00: Proceedings of the conference on Designing interactive systems SP - 357 KW - alexander KW - design KW - designpatterns KW - languages KW - mathgamespatterns KW - mexicali KW - patterns KW - software AU - Erickson, Thomas PY - 2000/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/347642.347794 ER -