Imperial College London

Dr Weston Baxter

Faculty of EngineeringDyson School of Design Engineering

Senior Lecturer
 
 
 
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Contact

 

weston.baxter Website

 
 
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Location

 

M202Royal College of ScienceSouth Kensington Campus

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Summary

 

Publications

Citation

BibTex format

@inproceedings{Baxter:2016,
author = {Baxter, W and Yang and Aurisicchio and Childs},
title = {Exploring a human-centred design of possessions},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/37118},
year = {2016}
}

RIS format (EndNote, RefMan)

TY  - CPAPER
AB - Understanding the idea of possession is essential for creating successful products and services, particularly in digital and access contexts. This paper examines current shortcomings in conceptualising ownership and possessions before presenting a framework for the process of developing user possession. The framework is grounded in psychological ownership theory and informed by interviews with thirteen participants. The theory considers ownership as a mental state in which users feel the object is theirs. The interviews explored this mental state underthree contexts: traditional material possession, digital possession, and access-based possession. This work helps inform the meaning of possessions, and can aid designers and policy makers in how to approach the notion of designing possessions from a human-centered viewpoint.
AU - Baxter,W
AU - Yang
AU - Aurisicchio
AU - Childs
PY - 2016///
TI - Exploring a human-centred design of possessions
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/37118
ER -