Design and anthropology [ - Donovan, Jared; Gunn, Wendy (Surrey, England : Ashgate Publishing, 2012)
1. Design anthropology: an introduction -- 2. The patient as skilled practitioner -- 3. Hearing poorly with skill -- 4. Gliding effortlessly through life? surfaces and friction -- 5. An institutional view on user improvisation and design -- 6. The time it takes to make: design and use in architecture and archaeology -- 7. Moving from objects to possibilities -- 8. Emergence of user identity in social interaction -- 9. The role of supply chains in product design -- 10. Anthropological fieldwork and designing potentials -- 11. Designing behaviour -- 12. Emergent artefacts of ethnography and processual engagements of design -- 13. Theories and figures of technical mediation -- 14. Utopian things
Includes bibliographical references and index
Keywords: Design -- Anthropological aspects; Design -- Human factors