Table of contents : Contents Series Foreword Preface and Acknowledgments 1. Interpretive Turn in Design Research From Usability to User Experience Usability Morphs into Empathic Design Empathic Research Program Overview 2. Making Sense of User Experience From eDesign to Empathic Design Observing Technologies That Do Not Exist: Prototyping Social The Path to Probing Conceptual Pivot: Co-experience Beyond the Definition of the Situation Experience Becomes Decoupled from Technology 3. Codesign and Commitment Action Research and Its Problems Codesign as Dialogue Design Games as Codesign: The Play Framework Vila Rosario: Paolo Freire and Empathic Design Commitment and Collaborative Design Studio in Suburbia: Ave Mellunkylä! Cooptation and Commitment 4. Interpretation and Radical Innovation In the Shadow of Design Legacy Super Studio: Learning from Pasadena “What If”: Spiritualizing Space Inspiration as Analysis Opening the Electrome: Hacking Meters in India Empathic Fiction: Bicycles and Plants The Aesthetics of Interpretation 5. Interpretation and the Constructive Turn Cardboard Mock-ups and Conversations Morphome: The Beginnings of Constructive Design Research Hacking a Car: Interpretive Foundations in Electronics Prototyping Interactions: A Taxonomy of Prototypes Toward Methodology: Design Research through Practice The Epistemological Foundations of Construction: Drifting by Intention Interpretation and Constructive Design Research 6. Interpretive Design Research and Beyond Four Sensitivities: An Interpretive Design Framework The Growth of Interpretive Knowledge Interpretation after Twenty Years How Interpretation Can Meet Recent Challenges Interpretive Design Research and Imagination References Index