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Monitoring Design Thinking Through In-Situ Interventions

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Building on existing knowledge of design and design thinking we apply several other fields of knowledge such as emotion coding, improvisation, ethnography, social psychology, and decision analysis into key metrics we call Design Thinking Metrics (DTM). We applied these metrics to analyze and assess videos of software design teams. We then conducted a workshop series with a professional software design team to use DTM as a perceptual tool to test a number of action-repertoires and building theory that could be used to improve Design Thinking practice. The result is multi-disciplinary perceptual monitoring of design thinking activity in professional software practice.

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Acknowledgements

The research team would like to thank the organizers of Studying Professional Software Designers workshop as well as the participants in both case studies examined.

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Engineering, Arizona State University, 7231 E. Sonoran Arroyo Mall, Mesa, AZ, 85212, USA

    Micah Lande

  2. Center for Design Research, Stanford University, 424 Panama Mall, Building 560, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA

    Neeraj Sonalkar & Malte Jung

  3. Department of Management Science and Engineering, Stanford University, Huang Engineering Center, 475 Via Ortega, Stanford, CA, 94305–4121, USA

    Christopher Han

  4. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University, Building 550, Stanford, CA, 94305–4021, USA

    Shilajeet Banerjee (Principal Investigator)

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Correspondence to Shilajeet Banerjee .

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  1. Hasso-Plattner-Institute for Software Sy, Prof-Dr-Helmert-Str. 2 -3, Potsdam, 14482, Germany

    Hasso Plattner

  2. Softwaresystemtechnik GmbH, Hasso-Plattner-Institut für, Prof.-Dr.-Helmert-Str. 2-3, Potsdam, 14482, Germany

    Christoph Meinel

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    Larry Leifer

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Lande, M., Sonalkar, N., Jung, M., Han, C., Banerjee, S. (2012). Monitoring Design Thinking Through In-Situ Interventions. In: Plattner, H., Meinel, C., Leifer, L. (eds) Design Thinking Research. Understanding Innovation. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-21643-5_12

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