Digital Methods for Service Design
Abstract
From logs and information left in online spaces to data points self-generated by connected
devices, digital traces have become more and more diffused over the past years. Along with
some big-data approaches, Digital Methods of research - treating the actual content of users’
manifestation online (i.e. tweets, Instagram pictures, comments) - offer the opportunity to
better understand people and behaviors through their online activities. This paper
investigates how Digital Methods can be repurposed as a full-fledged approach for the
Service Design practice, by offering a method to outline service design frameworks from a
corpus of web data. This quantitative methods, in combination with the traditional
qualitative approaches, leverage the continuous exchange of information that is happening in
the digital space and suggest the possibility to automate parts of the data collection and
analysis processes in support of service design activities. Grafting on several case studies -
we will explain how Digital Methods could be used to identify and describe a set of personas
by extracting and interpreting data from their online activities, and we will inquire into the
application of the same methodological approach to map other frameworks - such as
experience journeys or system maps - that are critical to Service Design.
Domains
Computer Science [cs] Social and Information Networks [cs.SI] Computer Science [cs] Web Computer Science [cs] Document and Text Processing Computer Science [cs] Image Processing [eess.IV] Environmental Sciences Environmental and Society Humanities and Social Sciences Architecture, space management
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