Design for Sustainability
We address the relations between people, nature, technologies, and material environments, and changes in these relations.
Research at the Department of Design
Department of Design
Research and innovation
The resarch at the Department of Design is carried out within the three resarch labs Shore Control Lab, Human-Centered AI Lab og Design for Health Lab. – and the four strategic areas Design for Sustainability, Human-Centered Technology, Interplay, and Form.
Research Labs
Human Centred AI Lab
Human Centred AI Lab's mission is designing and evaluating AI systems with and for people, focusing on aligning technology with human needs and values.
Shore Control Lab
Shore Control Lab is making maritime technology compatible with human needs. Our research revolves around three core themes: situational awareness, safety, and usability.
Design for Health Lab
Design for Health Lab's mission is to address unmet needs within public health and healthcare in Norway: identifying and solving real-life health challenges through multidisciplinary collaboration.
Strategic areas
Human-Centered Technology
We research how to design and evaluate technological systems through methods from Human-Factors, Information Systems, and Human-Computer Interaction.
Interplay
We argue for “a relational turn” within the design discipline, meaning that a well-designed service facilitates and aims at situations in which meetings between people and services contribute to people functioning in the best possible way given their context and situation.
Form
Our activities encompass teaching, research, practice based activities and outward-facing initiatives like exhibitions, visibility, dialogues and talks.
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