Illustration by Valery Lemay

On February 17, Dr. Haian Xue will give a guest lecture on “Introspection & designer’s experiential connoisseurship” for the course DEA 3308 Positive Design Studio run by Dr. Jay Yoon.

Dr. Haian Xue is Assistant Professor of Department of Human-Centered Design at Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands. His research focuses on the mechanisms that underlie mood experiences in human-design interaction. This lecture:

1. uncovers the epistemological and methodological limitations of the mainstream ‘trouble-free’ (seemingly objective) experience design research methods,
2. introduces the first-person/introspective methods for experience design,
3. points out the inseparability of the researcher/designer (the introspector) and introspection, and finally
4. elaborates the concept of experiential connoisseurship as an acquirable faculty that plays a crucial role in the successful practice of introspective methods.

By guiding the students to go through a structured process of introspection on a lived emotional experience, the following Experience Design Introspection (XDI) workshop introduces a pathway to cultivate and continuous advance their experiential connoisseurship.

The lecture will be online and open to all Cornell students who are interested in the topic.

• Time: Feb 17, 2021 at 08:00 am
• Zoom link: https://bit.ly/2NVWhGl (Passcode: 588552 / Participants will be admitted to the meeting individually).

Related reading material

• Xue, H., & Desmet, P. M. A. (2019). Researcher introspection for experience- driven design research. Design Studies, 63, 37–64. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.destud.2019.03.001. Download (via Cornell Library)