Sigrun Lurås

Sigrun Lurås

PhD
Designer and design researcher.

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Introduction
I am a design researcher and practicing systemic ux and service designer with substantial experience in the designing of advanced technology for complex contexts. I have a PhD from the Oslo School of Architecture and Design from 2016.
Additional affiliations
September 2011 - September 2015
Oslo School of Architecture and Design
Position
  • PhD Research Fellow
Description
  • Research fellow and interaction designer within the Ulstein Bridge Concept project.
Education
September 2011 - January 2016
August 1998 - June 2005
Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Field of study
  • Industrial Design Engineering

Publications

Publications (11)
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Doing field studies on ships to support maritime design is both time-consuming and costly. It is therefore important to make sure field studies are both effective (they produce the desired results) and efficient (they use the minimum resources necessary to achieve those results). Increased use of digital tools may potentially improve field studies....
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Designers are often facing complex design situations which may be challenging to grasp. In this paper I aim at making visible what designers need to make sense of through a systemic model of the design situation presenting the design situation as a system of three interconnected systems: the systems we design; the systems we design for; and the sys...
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In recent years designers seem to increasingly be engaged in projects for complex, high-risk domains. Yet, little research has been conducted that addresses how designers experience such projects, what kinds of challenges they face, and how they may manage these challenges. This thesis addresses the design in one such domain: the offshore ship indu...
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Making use of insights gained through field research in design can be challenging. Some issues that design teams may face are making sense of fragmented data collected, sharing insight among the design team and presenting the data in ways that support the situated design work. This paper introduces layered scenario mapping, a technique aimed at mee...
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Designers taking on marine design projects need an in-depth understanding of the context for which they design to be able to make good design judgements. This paper suggests that such an understanding can be referred to as ‘designers’ sea sense’, and argues that field research is paramount for designers to develop such a sense. Building on experien...
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Constant changing conditions such as weather, operation type, time of day and fatigue that are part of everyday life at the sea, cause considerable challenges for the design of ship bridge interfaces and workplaces. Such conditions lead to users experiencing situational impairments where users cannot operate equipment optimally due to temporary, op...
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Designers increasingly find themselves working in unfamiliar fields with high levels of complexity. One such field is the offshore industry. Through qualitative research interviews with eight industrial and interaction designers, we have investigated how designers experience designing for the Norwegian offshore industry, identified the challenges d...
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In this paper we discuss the use of field research in multidisciplinary design processes when designing the ship's bridge of offshore service vessels. From carrying out ten field studies at sea over a three year period we have gained considerable insight into the role which field research may play in design projects for the offshore ship industry....
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A manifesto is a published verbal declaration of the intentions, motives, or views of an issue. It accepts a previously published opinion and promotes a new idea with prescriptive notions for carrying out changes that the authors believe should be made. Marine Design is presented as an interdisciplinary holistic approach to boat design, based on th...
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Designers and researchers in the Ulstein Bridge Concept (UBC) project have begun conceiving of new ways of getting the inside story on ship's bridge environments and the people working there. Through the workblogs, mariners express in publishable form insights on their domain and the operations in which they are involved. One such blog is Rigmover,...
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To enable radical design in safety-critical collaborative workplaces, there is a need to engage a wide range of stakeholders. This paper reports on three design presentations carried out with the purpose of enabling systemic changes necessary to carry out a complete redesign of current ship bridges for advanced marine operations. The presentations...

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