Trond Are Øritsland
Background and activities
Design for me is about making good experiences. A design should be simple, natural, and graceful. Designs should promote interactions that are respectful of people and in harmony with culture and nature. Design should contribute something of lasting value to people. The ecological investment of bringing a new product to market requires a balance that novelty and fun alone often struggle to make up. My test of value is that I should be able to form an emotional attachment to a product and keep it for a long time. A physical product should age gracefully, increasing in value as it is worn and repaired.
My research interests span broadly from industrial design to interaction design and gamedesign. I am interested in the application of embodied mind theory and ecological psycology applied to design of products and interfaces. I am also keeping an eye og gamedesign theory and practice because it can teach us about creating joyfull and engaging products.
In professional practice, I have design experience primarily with sportsequipment, kayaks, multihull sailboats, medical- and aviation-technology and process industry. I photograph to get better at seeing and critically appraising our visual world.
Courses
TPD 4144 Design 6 Industry project
TPD 4134 Graphic User Interface design
TPD 4168 Game design
TPD 4505 Product design 9 Spesialisation Interaction design
TPD 4500 Produktdesign 9 Spesialisation Interaction design
TPD 4900 Masters Thesis in Interaction Design
PD8001 Interaction design, PhD course
On going PhD projects
cosuprevisor: Co-design in the health sector - Development of service for GPS tracking of people with dementia. Kristine Holbø
Previous PhD projects
Do You See What I See - investigations into the underlying elements of visual Simplicity
Martha Rice Skogen Doktoravhandlinger ved NTNU 2017:
Handheld devices for use within integrated operations in the petroleum industry
Daniela Blauhut, Doktoravhandlinger ved NTNU 2016:112
Information-rich design : a concept for large-screen display graphics : design principles and graphic elements for real-world complex processes
Alf Ove Braseth, Doktoravhandlinger ved NTNU 2015:30
Ph.D- kandidat i Industriell design, Designmetodikk som verktøy for brukerorientert stedsutvikling og regional utvikling, Hilde Østerås Berntsen 2004 - 14
2 PhD´s within the Center for Integrated Operations in the Petoleum Industry ended instead in the founding of visavi.com by Gisle Andresen and Øystein Veland
Design activities in the Norwegian seafood industry : a theoretical approach to understanding cooperation and communication
Kjersti Øverbø Schulte Doktoravhandlinger ved NTNU 2009:102
Mind design : steps to an ecology of human-machine systems
Thomas Hoff, Doktoravhandlinger ved NTNU 2002
Scientific, academic and artistic work
A selection of recent journal publications, artistic productions, books, including book and report excerpts. See all publications in the database
Journal publications
- (2019) User experience in mobile virtual reality: an on-site experience. Journal of Digital Landscape Architecture. vol. 4-2019.
- (2013) Visualizing complex processes on large screen displays: Design principles based on the Information Rich Design concept. Displays (Guildford). vol. 34 (3).
- (2012) Navigating in 3D Immersive Environments: A VirCa Usability Study. Elsevier IFAC Publications / IFAC Proceedings series.
- (2011) Integration and Testing of an STS Decision Support System in a Full-mission Ship Maneuvering Simulator. International Conference on Ship Manoeuvring in Shallow and Confined Water. vol. 2.
- (2002) On Representations of In-Vehicle Information Systems - Effects of Handheld vs. Speech Based User Interfaces. Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour.
Books
- (1999) Menneskelige Aspekter i Design - en innføring i ergonomi. 1999. ISBN 82-91917-00-0.
- (1997) Mennesklige aspekter i design - En innføring i ergonomi. 1997.
- (1997) Mennesklige aspekter i design - En innføring i ergonomi. 1997.
Part of book/report
- (2014) Physicality in Hybrid Products - The role of physicality when data, services and new social meanings merge. Proceedings of NordDesign 2014.
- (2010) Culture and Mobile HCI: A Review. Proceedings of norddesign 2010; International Conference on Methods and Tools for Product and Production Development, August 25-27, Gothenburg, Sweden.
- (2009) Inclusive Mainstream Products. Inclusive Buildings, products & Services - Challenges in Universal Design.
- (2008) The embodied mind in relation to thinking about form development. Proceedings of NordDesign 2008.
- (2008) On Representations of In-Vehicle Information Systems - Effects of Graphical (GUI) versus Speech-Based User Interfaces. Embodied Minds – Technical Environments. Conceptual Tools for Analysis, Design and Training.
- (2006) A Collaborative Systems Design Project with the Norwegian Postal Service. Educating Designers for a Global Context?.
- (1996) 5.1: Metoder for å identifisere og klassifisere brukere 5.2: Metoder for å skaffe rådata fra brukere 5.3: Metoder for oppgavenalyse 5.4: Metoder fo betjeningsdesign 5.5: Metode for brukbarhetstesting. Mekatronikk Metodikk.
Report/dissertation
- (1999) A Theory of Discursive Interaction Design - Mapping the development of quality and style in man machine interaction. 1999.