Design thinking in multidisciplinary learning teams: Insights from multidisciplinary teaching events

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Abstract

The design thinking approach which shapes the design culture of many organizations today, focuses on users’ experiences, particularly their emotional ones, and strives to develop smart technologies and other complex systems and make them simple, intuitive and pleasurable. During design thinking processes, development teams are required to build empathy with users, observe their behavior and conclude and describe what they want and need, by using emotional language such as desire, love and aspire. Moreover, emotional attributes and notations are inserted into current modeling languages for expressing emotional goals and motivations for realizing users’ perceptions of systems. For fostering design thinking capabilities, universities offer multidisciplinary learning opportunities where engineers and designers learn and practice together design thinking in development processes. In this regard, Shenkar, College of Engineering, Design and Art, provides students with several multidisciplinary learning opportunities in courses and workshops. This paper reports on these opportunities and brings insights and recommendations for enhancing the next multidisciplinary teaching events. The recommendations draw on the current body of literature in the areas of design thinking approach, agile framework and creativity, and address: defining open challenges that appeal to each discipline; handling teams’ working process and responsibilities; and outlining expected solution that encompasses multidisciplinary capabilities.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAdvanced Information Systems Engineering Workshops - CAiSE 2017 International Workshops, Proceedings
EditorsAndreas Metzger, Anne Persson
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages101-109
Number of pages9
ISBN (Print)9783319600475
DOIs
StatePublished - 2017
Externally publishedYes
Event29th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering, CAiSE 2017 - Essen, Germany
Duration: 12 Jun 201716 Jun 2017

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Business Information Processing
Volume286
ISSN (Print)1865-1348

Conference

Conference29th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering, CAiSE 2017
Country/TerritoryGermany
CityEssen
Period12/06/1716/06/17

Bibliographical note

Publisher Copyright:
© Springer International Publishing AG 2017.

Keywords

  • Agile framework
  • Creativity
  • Design thinking
  • Emotions
  • Multidisciplinary team

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Management Information Systems
  • Control and Systems Engineering
  • Business and International Management
  • Information Systems
  • Modeling and Simulation
  • Information Systems and Management

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