Staff Profiles

I'm interested in how people design their environments including how they learn. This brings together conventional science, ethology, social sciences, cognitive neuro-science and systems understanding and bridges Technology, Art, Business, IT and Governance

I've three areas of research interest as represented in my publications (see www.love.com.au):

• complex socio-technical systems design (i.e design that involves people and technology), including the application of power in legitimated governance and crime
  
• how individuals, groups and societies design  their environments (products, systems services, technologies, organisations, social programs, laws and governance, strategies) and how to improve their design activities (social and technical activities, ways of thinking, roles of emotions and cultural factors)
• improving learning -  particularly in postgraduate supervision, eportfolios and elearning systems and critical systems thinking

Current projects:

1. Crime prevention in the Southern Rail corridor
2. State of understanding and application of Design Out Crime strategies in product design in Australia
3. Reducing Crime and anti-social behaviour of young people in the environs of the Perth etropolitan rail system
4. Counter-intuitive identificaiton of best design practices in sustainability design
5. Application of ethological perspective to understanding design and innovation in humans
6. Identification of extensions to Ashby's Law of Requisite Variety as they apply to transfer of power in complex socio-technical systems (extends Ashby's Law into social realm).
7. Counter-intuitive ethological analysis of roles of emotion and feeling in the design and use of designed products, systems, services and organisations.

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I am primarily employed to supervise postgraduate students, undertake research and provide research training in the faculty. I specialise in working with postgraduate students with overseas backgrounds and with students involved in design research that is cross-disciplinary or systems-based.  This usually involves a multi-disciplinary approach across the 850 fields of design. Design research is intrinsically difficult for postgraduate study because of its  conceptual complexity and multidisciplinarity. I have developed severla approaches to addressing these problems that have resulted in good compleiton rates and times to completion.

I am always interested in undertaking supervision of postgraduate students with interesting design research projects.

I currently supervise:

7 PhD students

Post-graduate Coordinator

Member of the Faculty Graduate Studies Committee since 2005

Design Research Society

Institute of Mechnical Engineers

Informing Science Institute

Association of Computing Machinery

Australian and New Zealand Systems Society

Fellow of the Design Research Society

Best paper awards (2)

Book Chapters (Authored, Research Quality)

• Love, T, and Cooper, T. 2007. E-portfolios in e-learning. In Advanced Principles of Effective e-learning, eds N. Buzzetto-More, 267-292. Santa Rosa, CA: Informing Science Press.
• Love, T, and Cooper, T. 2007. An inclusive approach to laerning object Architecture: Portfolios & RDF. In Learning Objects: Standards, Metadata, Repositories & LCMS, 315-348. Santa Rosa, CA: Informing Science.
• Love, T. 2003. Foreword. In Intuition: Evaluating the Construct and Its Impact on Creative Thinking, eds Tony Bastick, Terence Love, 1-10. Carribean: Stoneman & Lang.

Refereed Articles (Scholarly Journals)

• Cozens, P, and Love, T. 2009. Manipulating Permeability as a Process for Controlling Crime: Balancing Security and Sustainability in Local Contexts. Built Environment 35(1): 346-365.
• Love, T, Rose, M, and Parsons, M. 2007. Path-dependent Foundation of Global Design-driven Outdoor Trade in the Northwest of England. International Journal of Design 1(3): 57-68.
• Love, T, and Cooper, T. 2007. Complex built environment design: four extensions to Ashby. Kybernetes: The International Journal of Systems, Cybernetics and Management Science 36: 1422-1435.
• Love, T, and Cooper, T. 2004. Designing Online Information Systems for Portfolio-Based Assessment: Design Criteria and Heuristics.. Journal of Information Technology Education. 3: 65-81.
• Love, T. 2003. Design as a Social Process: Bodies, Brains and Social Aspects of Designing. Journal of Design Research 3(1).
• Tellefsen, B, and Love, T. 2003. Constituent Market Orientation as a Basis for Integrated Design Processes and Design Management. Journal of the Asian Design International Conference 1.
• Love, T. 2003. Customers use of products as design tools. Journal of the Asian Design International Conference 1.
• Love, T, and Tellefsen, B. 2003. Constituent market orientation and ownership of virtual marketplaces. Logistics Information Management 16(1): 8-17.
• Love, T. 2002. Constructing a coherent cross-disciplinary body of theory about designing and designs: some philosophical issues. Design Studies 23(3): 345-361.

Fully written papers (Refereed Conference proceedings)

• Love, T. 2009. Complicated and Complex Crime Prevention and the 2 Feedback Loop Law. iDOC'09 International Design Out Crime Conference, 02/12/2009. Edith Cowan University, Joondalup, Australia: Design Out Crime Research Centre.
• Love, T. 2009. Counter-intuitive Design Thinking: Implications for Design Education, Research and Practice. Cumulus 38°s 2009, 12/11/2009. Swinburne University of Technology & RMIT University: Swinburne University of Technology & RMIT University.
• Love, T. 2009. Design and Emotion: Time for a New Direction?. International Association of Societies of Design Research 2009, 18/10/2009. COEX, Seoul, Korea: Korean Society of Design Science.
• Love, T, and Yang, S. 2009. Designing Shape-shifting of Knitwear by Stitch Shaping Combinatorics: A simple mathematical approach to developing knitwear silhouettes efficaciously. International Association of Societies of Design Research 2009, 18/10/2009. COEX, Seoul, Korea: Korean Society of Design Science.
• Love, T. 2009. University-Based Units providing Design and Innovation Support for Businesses and Public Sector Organisations. 40 IADE 40 Conference, 30/09/2009. IADE Creative University, Lisbon, Portugal: IADE Creative University.
• Jung, J, and Love, T. 2008. A design method based on social behaviours for pleasurable user experiences in human-computer interaction. 6th Design & Emotion Conference 2008: Dare to Desire, 06/10/2008. Hong Kong: School of Design, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
• Cooper, T, and Love, T. 2008. Design for Improving Hospital Stroke Unit Processes: Reducing Complex Systems Failures Leading to Adverse Patient Outcomes. Design Research Society Conference 2008, 16/07/2008. Sheffield, UK: Sheffield Hallam University.
• Love, T. 2008. Improving Design of Micro-business Systems via VSM and Constituent Orientation Analysis. Design Research Society Conference 2008, 16/07/2008. Sheffield, UK: Sheffield Hallam University.
• Cozens, P, and Love, T. 2008. Improving Pedestrian Access Way Planning Using Designing Out Crime. Planning and Transport Research Centre (PATREC) Research Forum, 02/10/2008. Edith Cowan University: Planning and Transport Research Centre (PATREC).
• Love, T, and Yang, S. 2008. Integrated System for Fashion Design using Computerised Wholegarment Knitwear Production. The 14th ANZSYS Australia New Zealand Systems Society Conference, 01/12/2008. Edith Cowan University, Perth, Australia: SECAU - Security Research Centre.
• Cooper, T, and Love, T. 2008. Motivational Information Systems: Case study of a University Research Productivity Index leading to a 6th Extension to Ashby's Law. The 14th ANZSYS Australia New Zealand Systems Society Conference, 01/12/2008. Edith Cowan University, Perth, Australia: SECAU - Security Research Centre.
• Love, T, and Cozens, P. 2008. Pedestrian Access Ways in Western Australia. 4th Annual PATREC Research Forum 2008, 02/10/2008. Edith Cowan University, Joondalup, Australia: Planning and Transport Research Centre (PATREC).
• Cooper, T, and Love, T. 2007. Digital Eco-systems Pre-Design: Variety Analyses, System Viability and Tacit System Control Mechanisms. IEEE-DEST 2007 Digital Eco-Systems, 21/02/2007. Cairns, Qld: IEEE-DEST Curtin University.
• Love, T. 2007. National Design Infrastructures: The key to design-driven socio-economic outcomes and innovative knowledge economies. IASDR07 Emerging Trends in Design Research, 12/11/2007. Hong Kong: Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
• Love, T, and Cooper, T. 2007. Successful activism strategies: five new extensions to Ashby. 13th ANZSYS Conference Systemic Development: Local solutions in a global environment, 02/12/2007. Auckland, NZ: ISCE Publishing.
• Love, T. 2007. System dynamic modelling of national design infrastructure development. Systemic development: local solutions in a global environment, 02/12/2007. Auckland, NZ: Goodyear, USA.
• Love, T, donovan, E, and Cooper, T. 2007. Young people in rail environs: An interagency approach to conflict reduction and crime prevention. Are we there yet?, 01/05/2007. Melbourne: Youth Affairs Council of Victoria.
• Love, T. 2006. A Systems Analysis of the Problem of Professional Practice in Design: "Why Mac Computer Systems Reduce Creativity and Inhibit Quality Improvement of Novel Innovative Design". 2006 Design Research Society International Conference in Lisbon, 01/11/2006. Lisbon City: IADE - Instituto Artes Visuais Design Marketing.
• Cooper, T, and Love, T. 2006. Casual Model of Beach Erosion with Inland Sand Transport: Political and Urban Planning Implications. 12th Annual ANZSYS Conference, 03/12/2006. Katoomba, NSW: ISCE Publishing.
• Affleck, F, donovan, E, Love, T, and Cooper, T. 2006. Development of a Collaborative Design-focused Research Approach for Interagency Cooperation Addressing Youth Anti-Social Behaviour in Rail Environs. 2006 Design Research Society International Conference in Lisbon, 01/11/2006. lisbon: IADE - Instituto Artes Visuais Design Marketing.
• Love, T. 2005. A Unified Basis for Design Research and Theory. International Design Congress - IASDR: New Design Paradigms, 01/11/2005. Taiwan: International Association of Societies of Design Research.
• Love, T. 2005. Design Infrastructure: Australian Developments. International Design Congress - IASDR 2005: New Design Paradigms, 01/11/2005. Taiwan: International Association of Societies of Design Research.
• Love, T. 2005. Improving Quality in Design-focused services. Pride and Predesign: the cultural heritage and the science of design, 26/05/2005. Lison: European Association of Universities and Colleges of Art, Design and Media.
• Love, T. 2005. the practical implications of the essentially two-faced nature of design. Pride And Predesign: the cultural heritage and the science of design, 26/05/2005. Lisbon: European Association of Universities and Colleges of Art, Design and Media.
• Love, T. 2004. Beyond Emotions in Designing and Designs: Epistemological and Practical Issues. 3rd International Conference on Design and Emotion, 01/07/2002. Loughborough: Taylor and Francis.
• Love, T. 2004. Collaborative Design Activity: The Inclusion of Human Affect Processes in Design Theory about Collaboration in Design. Futureground, 01/11/2004. Monash University: Monash University.
• Love, T. 2003. A Fork in the Road: Systems and Design. 9th ANZSYS Conference - Systems in Action, 01/11/2003. Monash, Melbourne: ANZSYS 2003.
• Love, T. 2003. Design and Sense: Implications of Damasio's Neurological Findings for Design Theory. 1st International Meeting of Science and Technology of Design, Senses and Sensibility in Technology - Linking Tradition to Innovation through Design, 25/09/2003. Lisbon, Portugal: IADE.
• Love, T, and Cooper, T. 2003. Designing Doctoral Education Programs in Design: Articulation with Post Doctoral Career Pathways. 3rd Doctoral Education in Design, 01/10/2003. Tsukuba: University of Tsukuba & Chiba University.
• Love, T. 2003. Metrics for Benchmarking International Design Infrastructure. 1st International Meeting of Science and Technology of Design, Senses and Sensibility in Technology - Linking Tradition to Innovation through Design, 25/09/2003. Lisbon, Portugal: IADE.
• Love, T. 2002. Are the "Reflective Practitioner" and "Learning Cycles" Suitable Foundations for Theories about Designing and Designs Cognition. Common Ground Design Research Society International Conference 2002, 01/09/2002. Brunel: Staffordshire University Press.
• Love, T. 2002. Building Better Relationships between Design Research, Design Research Education, Government, Industry and the Design Professions. Common Ground Design Research Society International Conference 2002, 01/09/2002. Brunel, London: Staffordshire University Press.
• Love, T. 2002. Complexity in Design Management: Layered System Dynamics Graphs. Managing Approaches to Complex Systems ANZSYS '02, 01/12/2002. Mooloolaba, Queensland: Praxis Education.
• Love, T. 2002. Multiple Theoretical Perspectives in thr Long Thesis PhD: A Foundation Problem for PhD Education. 25th HERDSA Annual Conference, 07/07/2002. Perth: HERDS Inc.
• Love, T. 2002. New Directions in PhDs: Online Considerations. AARE 2001, 01/12/2001. Fremantle: AARE Inc.
• Cooper, T, and Love, T. 2002. On-line Portfolios: The Benefits and Limitations of Assessment using On-line Portfolios. AARE 2001, 01/12/2001. Fremantle: AARE Inc.
• Love, T. 2002. “Understanding designing and design management through constituent market orientation and constituent orientation. Common Ground Design Research Society International Conference 2002, 05/09/2002. Brunel, London: Staffordshire University Press.