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Charging Up: Energy usage in households around the world

Article for Touchpoint 4, the journal of the international Service Design Network, by Geke van Dijk. ‘Charging Up’ is an international study of people’s practices and motivations in relation to everyday usage of energy in households. This study investigated the interest and willingness people have to review and potentially alter their daily routines in energy usage, and in this respect explored how energy providers may support their customers with new services and tools. (PDF, 352kb)

How sticky research drives Service Design

At the 2009 Service Design Network conference in Madeira, Bas presented a paper with Andreas Sommerwerk of Deutsche Telekom AG. The title is “How sticky research drives service design,” and the paper was also written by Indri Tulusan of Spur and Julia Leihener, co-director with Andreas of the Creation Center in Berlin. The paper tells the story of how we used little movies throughout a design process for new concepts that enhance community interaction on mobile phones. (PDF, 3.6 Mb)

Change: moving on to the next level

Keynote presentation by Geke van Dijk at the CHI Nederland conference in Leiden (11 June 2009). (PDF 4,6 Mb)

The presentation has also been recorded on video and can be viewed on Vimeo.

Designing Empathic Conversations for Inclusive Design Facilitation

Paper on inclusive design facilitation for the Heartlands project. Presented by Bas at the Include conference in London (6-8 April 2009). Authors: Bas Raijmakers, Geke van Dijk, Yanki Lee and Sarah Williams. (PDF 1.6 MB)

Open Innovation with a service design approach

Paper on Open Innovation project for Elsevier. Written by Geke van Dijk, Bas Raijmakers, Michiel van der Heyden en Toke Barter. Presented at the international Service Design conference in Amsterdam (24-26 November 2008). (PDF, 544kb)

HCI informing Service Design, and visa versa

Paper by Geke van Dijk. Presented at the workshop Service Design, during the conference HCI2008 in Liverpool (2-5 September 2008). (PDF, 336 kb)

Service Design

On popular request a one-page explanation on Service Design. This is a relatively new and successful approach to innovation and it is becoming increasingly popular in the creative industry. However, there are very few sources available that explain the principles of service design. This is clearly a case of practice-based development by early adopters such as STBY. Hit the ground running as they say… (PDF, 248 kb – in English and Dutch)

Inclusive Design

Also on popular request an overview of which research techniques are most suitable in each stage of the inclusive design process. This is another area that is only scarely documented. STBY developed this overview for a client report, but we feel that it should be publicly available to the wider community as well. (PDF, 36 kb)

Smart Street paper

Paper on experimental design research methods in a street in London, published by the Design Research Society and presented at their annual conference in 2008: Undisciplined!. The project was done with students from the Royal College of Art Design Interactions department. Co-authored by Wendy March (Intel) and Bas Raijmakers. (PDF, 732 kb)

Smart Street presentation

The presentation Bas did at the Design Research Society conference Undisciplined! (2008) on the above mentioned paper. (PDF, 4.2 Mb)

Girls and glossies

Press release by Spunk//STBY on a recently completed study among 15-16 year old girls. (Spunk//STBY is a joint venture for research specifically focused on issues regarding young people in The Netherlands.) (168 kb – in Dutch.)

International Service Design Northumbria 2008

Bas presented at the ISDN03 conference in Newcastle about design documentaries as a method to discover what matters to people. All presentations can be downloaded from the Northumbria University Design School website. Bas’s presentation can be downloaded here (PDF, 4,3Mb).

Passionate for People

by Geke van Dijk and Bas Raijmakers. Presented at the Design by Fire conference on 23 October 2007 in Utrecht, NL. (8.4 Mb, excluding video fragments)

Creative collaborations for innovative service design

by Geke van Dijk. Published in ‘Uncommon Ground: Creative encounters across sectors and disciplines’, edited by Cathy Brickwood et al., BIS publishers, Amsterdam, 2007. (PDF, 5.6MB)

PhD thesis Design Documentaries

by Bas Raijmakers. Completed in 2007 at the Royal College of Art, Design Interactions, London, UK. (PDF, 4,7 MB)

Pick and Mix: consumers moving between online and offline channels

by Geke van Dijk. PhD thesis, completed in 2007, Computing Department, Open University, Milton Keynes, UK. (PDF, 5 MB)

Rich viz – Design Documentaries

by Bas Raijmakers. Paper on design documentaries, published in ‘Rich Viz! Inspiring design teams with rich vizualizations’, edited by Pieter Jan Stappers et al., StudioLab Press, Delft University of Technology, 2007.

Pick n Mix: Consumers combining electronic and conventional service channels

by Geke van Dijk, Shailey Minocha and Angus Laing. Published in a special issue of the journal Interacting With Computers, Volume 19, Issue 1, Elsevier, 2006. (PDF, 540 KB)

Design Documentaries: Inspiring Design Research Through Documentary Film

by Bas Raijmakers, William W. Gaver and Jon Bishay. Presented at DIS2006 conference in State College, Pennsylvania. (PDF, 3.5 MB)

Multichannel consumer behavior: online and offline travel preparations

by Geke van Dijk, Shailey Minocha and Angus Laing. Presented at CHI2006 conference in Montreal, Canada. (PDF, 168 KB)

Channels, consumers and communication: Online and offline communication in service consumption

by Geke van Dijk, Angus Laing and Shailey Minocha. Presented at the Academy of Marketing conference in London 2006. This paper was awarded the Direct and Database Marketing Track Prize by the Institute for Direct Marketing. (PDF, 140 KB)

Investigating users out of the box: exploring multi-channel consumer behaviour

by Geke van Dijk. Presented at SIGCHI2006 conference in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. (PDF in Dutch, 3.6 MB)

A decade of web use

by Geke van Dijk. Presented at the conference A decade of web design in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2005. (PDF, 21.8 MB)

Applying User Context Analysis in evaluations of e-commerce environments.

by Geke van Dijk. Position paper for the workshop Total Customer Experience during the conference Interact 2003, Zurich, CH. (PDF 80 KB).

User research als inspiratiebron voor webontwerpers

(Usability research as source of inspiration for web designers)¬†by Bas Raijmakers.¬†Chapter in the book ‘Webontwerp’ in the series ‘Monografi√´n over vormgeving’.¬†Published for Dutch art students by [Z]OO / Vd Eindhoven, 2003. (Dutch text, PDF, 2.8 MB).

Usability testing is a means, not a goal

by Bas Raijmakers.¬†Published in Usability – Nutzerfreundliches Web-Design by Markus Beier and Vittoria von Gizicky (eds.), Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2002. (English translation, PDF, 156 KB)

Shopping pleasure at Bol.com

by Bas Raijmakers.¬†Published in Usability – Nutzerfreundliches Web-Design by Markus Beier and Vittoria von Gizicky (eds.), Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2002. (English translation, PDF, 768 KB))

Users are the energizers of multidisciplinary development

by Bas Raijmakers, for Lost Boys Amsterdam. Presented at the Sigchi.nl conference 2002. (PDF, 280 KB)