Books by Ilpo Koskinen

Businesses and the HCI and Interaction Design communities have embraced design and design research. This book studies three design research traditions that cover methodological directions in research community. Taking you from the Lab, Field and to the Showroom, it shows you successful traditions in design research.

Constructive design research, is an exploratory endeavor building exemplars, arguments, and evidence. It helps skill the design researcher in participating in the general language games of research and helps the design researcher build research relations beyond the discipline.

Presents a picture of how people communicate using camera phones and other mobile multimedia devices. Using a variant of social science research known as ethnomethodology, this book explores the kinds of images people take with camera phones and how they use sound to enhance these images.