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Technical artefacts should exist to bring added value and quality to people’s lives. HTI design should, therefore, be considered in a much broader context than merely the usage of technology. It should be based on an understanding of people’s lives and well-grounded design methods and tools, which can investigate life and apply this knowledge to the design work. The conceptual model of life-based design (LBD) is based on segregating unified systems of actions called forms of life. Investigating the structure of actions and related facts relevant to particular forms of life, in addition to the values that people follow, is the core tool of LBD. The knowledge produced constitutes a template for human requirements, which serves as a basis for design ideas and technological solutions.
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The original German term for ‘form of life’ is ‘Lebensform’ (e.g., Wittgenstein 1953: §19). The concept form of life originates from Wittgenstein’s (1953, 1964) late philosophy. By this term, Wittgenstein, one of the most important philosophers of the last century, refers to any circle or context of linguistic actions. In his original proposal, form of life was a theoretical concept and conceptual abstraction for analysing human linguistic behaviour and use of language. It is possible to extend the use of this concept to analyse, for example, human social life (Giddens 1990) and any other aspects of human life (Leikas 2009; Saariluoma and Leikas 2010).
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Saariluoma, P., Cañas, J.J., Leikas, J. (2016). Life-Based Design. In: Designing for Life. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-53047-9_6
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