Call for Support: What's your Attitude to Reality?

Designers, engineers, artists and scientists working together sometimes encounter problems that are based on the differences in their worldviews. Using the "Attitude Towards Reality Scale" by Unger et al, a group of researchers are investigating these differences and their impact in the hope that the results might lead to a better mutual understanding and cooperation.

An online survey has been set up to collect data as widely as possible. 'We are now testing the reliability of this tool and would like to invite everybody, including previous participants, to fill in the survey,' says organiser Christoph Bartneck of Eindhoven University of Technology in The Netherlands. 'I am interested in the relationship between design and science and the survey is one part of my efforts. The HCI community works with different paradigms which cause many misunderstandings and frustrations. My goal is to come to unified model of the two main camps: the creators (e.g. designers, engineers) and the analyzers (e.g. social scientists).'

People who are interested in the result can leave their email address and will be notified as soon as they are available.

You can contribute to this study by filling in an anonymous online questionnaire at the website linked below (http://www.survey.id.tue.nl/aar) Send any questions or comments to christoph@bartneck.de.

Associated Link: The survey

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