Abstract
In this paper, we examined the inevitable problem in establishing a method of “systematic review” in human-centered design research: how to recognize that a design case incorporates the process of human-centered design. In this paper, systematic review is a research method that aims to create new knowledge that practitioners themselves are not aware of by collecting and integrating case reports related to human-centered design and clarifying the differences and commonalities among the cases. It is important to extract and analyze reliable cases for systematic review. However, if the collection of cases to be reviewed is done inappropriately, the reliability of the findings may be impaired. Therefore, the author points out that in conducting a systematic review in human-centered design research, it is necessary to establish clear criteria for “how to approve the cases of human centered design to be studied in the systematic review.” This paper presents three directions of criteria for case selection and discusses the merits and demerits of each.
