Val Mitchell
Loughborough University
92 Papers
516 Citations
Val Mitchell is an academic researcher from Loughborough University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Service design & Computer science. The author has an hindex of 17, co-authored 86 publications. Previous affiliations of Val Mitchell include Esri.
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Papers
A persona-based approach to domestic energy retrofit
Victoria Haines,Val Mitchell +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, a persona-driven study was undertaken to explore the varying behaviours, attitudes and motivations towards home improvement for owner-occupiers who live in "hard to treat" solid-walled dwellings.
Applying the lens of sensory ethnography to sustainable HCI
Sarah Pink,Kerstin Leder Mackley,Val Mitchell,Marcus Hanratty,Carolina Escobar-Tello,Tracy Bhamra,Roxana Moroşanu +6 more
TL;DR: An approach rooted in phenomenological anthropology and sensory ethnography is developed that builds on theories of place, perception and movement and enables us to situate practices, and understand practical activity, as emplaced within complex and shifting ecologies of things.
Probing user values in the home environment within a technology driven Smart Home project
Victoria Haines,Val Mitchell,Catherine Cooper,Martin Maguire +3 more
- 01 Jun 2007
TL;DR: The Cultural Probe approach is adapted to collect primarily visual data about what people value within their home environment to provide fun and engaging prompts for data collection when the design process and project context required more structured consideration of user needs.
Empirical investigation of the impact of using co-design methods when generating proposals for sustainable travel solutions
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present an empirical comparison of idea generation within the context of reducing the number of single occupancy car journeys to and from a UK university campus, and find that the co-design group generated a significantly higher number of innovative ideas than the consultative group.
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