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What Happened to Empathic Design?
Tuuli Mattelmäki,
Tuuli Mattelmäki
Tuuli Mattelmäki, originally trained as industrial designer, has contributed to design research and particularly on empathic design methods such as probing and co-designing. She is Associate Professor at the Department of Design at Aalto University School of Arts Design and Architecture.
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Kirsikka Vaajakallio,
Kirsikka Vaajakallio
Kirsikka Vaajakallio has an MA in Industrial Design and defended her doctoral dissertation “Design Games as a Tool, a Mindset and a Structure” in August 2012. She is specialized in user-centered design focusing on creative teamwork, particularly how game-like approaches—such as, design games—facilitate collaboration during early phases of design process. She is member of a research group, ENCORE (Engaging Co-design Research), at Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture. She also works as service designer in a Finnish design agency, Diagonal Mental Structure.
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Ilpo Koskinen
Ilpo Koskinen
Ilpo Koskinen was a sociologist, and has worked as Professor of Industrial Design since 1999. His main research interests have been in mobile multimedia, the relationship of design and cities, and design methodology.
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Tuuli Mattelmäki
Tuuli Mattelmäki, originally trained as industrial designer, has contributed to design research and particularly on empathic design methods such as probing and co-designing. She is Associate Professor at the Department of Design at Aalto University School of Arts Design and Architecture.
Kirsikka Vaajakallio
Kirsikka Vaajakallio has an MA in Industrial Design and defended her doctoral dissertation “Design Games as a Tool, a Mindset and a Structure” in August 2012. She is specialized in user-centered design focusing on creative teamwork, particularly how game-like approaches—such as, design games—facilitate collaboration during early phases of design process. She is member of a research group, ENCORE (Engaging Co-design Research), at Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture. She also works as service designer in a Finnish design agency, Diagonal Mental Structure.
Ilpo Koskinen
Ilpo Koskinen was a sociologist, and has worked as Professor of Industrial Design since 1999. His main research interests have been in mobile multimedia, the relationship of design and cities, and design methodology.
Online Issn: 1531-4790
Print Issn: 0747-9360
© 2013 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2013
Design Issues (2014) 30 (1): 67–77.
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Tuuli Mattelmäki, Kirsikka Vaajakallio, Ilpo Koskinen; What Happened to Empathic Design?. Design Issues 2014; 30 (1): 67–77. doi: https://doi.org/10.1162/DESI_a_00249
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