The book introduces an emerging domain of design that is of immense interest today not only to the academic design research community but also to those in the business community charged with the development of human-cantered products, systems, services and/or environments. All the information is new. There are no other books with this focus and coverage currently available.

The book is written by two design professors from the USA and Holland and will be the perfect text book to use in education of design research worldwide.