A theory landscape of design: mapping the theoretical discourse of the discipline

Katja Thoring, Roland M. Mueller

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Abstract

This paper presents a mapping of theory use in the design discipline based on the corpus of the published ICED and DESIGN conference papers since 2010. We searched the resulting 4,451 papers for occurrences of theories and compared them with an existing ontology of named theories through natural language processing (NLP). The results yielded a variety of analyses, illustrating, for example, the most-used theories and which disciplines these theories stem from. This paper presents a rich overview of the theories relevant to the design discipline and a novel approach to bibliometric analyses.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)145-154
Number of pages10
JournalProceedings of the Design Society
Volume4
DOIs
StatePublished - 2024
Event2024 International Design Society Conference, Design 2024 - Cavtat, Dubrovnik, Croatia
Duration: 20 May 202423 May 2024

Keywords

  • bibliometric analysis
  • design theory
  • literature review
  • natural language processing (NLP)
  • ontology

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