{"400131":{"#nid":"400131","#data":{"type":"event","title":"PhD Defense by Thomas James Lodato","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp align=\u0022center\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EThe Work of User Experience Design\u003C\/strong\u003E:\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cem\u003EMateriality and Cultures in Designing\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp align=\u0022center\u0022\u003EThomas James Lodato (PhD candidate)\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp align=\u0022center\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETSRB Auditorium, May 8th 2015 @ 10am-12pm\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp align=\u0022center\u0022\u003ECommittee: Carl DiSalvo (advisor), Ian Bogost, Chris Le Dantec, Erik Stolterman (Indiana University, Bloomington), and Melissa Gregg (Intel Corporation)\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E \u003Cstrong\u003EAbstract\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cem\u003EAt the computational technology company (LTC), designers, engineers, middle managers, executives, social science researchers, marketers, and many other employees worked together to design the user experience of a variety of products. The term user experience marked their language and activities on a daily basis. As designing is a material process of inquiry, the particular environment impacts how design is done. The present research is a case study of the particular character of this use, and how the local environment and the native work activities of LTC impacted and were impacted by this term. The research explores the overlap of design and work\u2014what work activities constitute design and what design activities constitute work\u2014in order to understand the relationship between the activities of design, the environment of its practice, and the local culture of action. The case study reflects on assumptions within design scholarship (and specifically, design studies) about the contemporary role and activity of design in comprehensive innovation, organizational change, and product development.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The Work of User Experience Design: Materiality and Cultures in Designing"}],"uid":"27707","created_gmt":"2015-04-28 12:04:58","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 02:11:54","author":"Tatianna Richardson","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2015-05-08T11:00:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2015-05-08T13:00:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2015-05-08T13:00:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2015-05-08 15:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2015-05-08 17:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2015-05-08 17:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"221981","name":"Graduate Studies"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"1366","name":"defense"},{"id":"1808","name":"graduate students"},{"id":"913","name":"PhD"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1788","name":"Other\/Miscellaneous"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78771","name":"Public"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}