Aysun Aytac & Sabine Junginger
In the past year, many people experienced and witnessed new forms of interactions in their homes due to study and work obligations from home. This 15-min talk discusses the home office as a shared workspace where co-working is the norm, calling on interaction designers to rethink the concept of the home office.
Credits
Music: Soundstripe Inc.
Track: Stardust
Artist: Cody Martin
Writer: Cody Kurtz Martin
Publisher: BOSS SOUNDSTRIPE PRODUCTIONS
Video production: EVERYWOW
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Aysun Aytac
I am a research associate at the Competence Centre for Design and Management research group at Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts in Switzerland. My background is product/industrial design and I am a human-centered design researcher. My doctoral research focuses on how women interact with the domestic bathroom space and its elements providing insights into the use, organization, and experience of the bathroom in the context of Turkey. This work illustrates how design research focuses on human interactions to place the users and their experiences in the center of an investigation to generate a better understanding of people, their values, and their lifestyles, thus of society. Our talk has a similar approach. We put people at the center of our research, including all the people involved. We approach the subject from a holistic perspective which provides a better understanding of the problem.
Sabine Junginger
I received my MA in Communication Planning and Information Design and my PhD in Design from the renowned School of Design at Carnegie Mellon University, both under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Richard Buchanan and Prof. Dr. Denise Rousseau. My Master’s thesis combined interaction design and communication design to develop a digital patient-centered hospital wayfinding system. My doctoral thesis extended a human-centered interaction design approach to problems of organizational change and management. My previous academic positions include Lecturer and founding member of design research group imaginationLancaster at the Lancaster University (UK) and Associate Professor at the Kolding School of Design (DK).
At Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, I am the head of the Competence Centre for Design and Management, head of the Service Design Masters program and I co-lead the focus area ‘Organizations, HR and Leadership’ for the university-wide Interdisciplinary Theme Cluster (ITC) Digital Transformation of the Working World. I also teach in the Design Management, International (DMI) bachelor’s program.
I am an expert on the principles, methods, and processes of human-centered design. My research into design theories and design practices relevant to public and private organizations is internationally recognized. In addition, I explore policy-making and policy implementation as activities of design that are especially important to succeed in digital transformation.
