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Modern service design thinking on traditional culture-based services: A case study of the service businesses in suzhou old town areas

  • Xin Shen
  • , Cheng Hung Lo*
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University

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Abstract

This paper presents a case study that utilizes modern service design thinking techniques to investigate culture-based service businesses. The study is carried out in two heritage sites in Suzhou, which itself is a historical city located in the south of Yangtze River in China. Ethnographic methods are used to explore and collect the data. Service design thinking principles and methods are then applied to analyze the observed service businesses and identify common thematic issues and design opportunities. Service prototyping techniques are also used to review and rearrange a customer’s journeys in the services. The result shows that modern design thinking concepts such as the user-centered approach can provide fundamental transformations to those services. It also illustrates a more cross-cultural development with the cross-cultural encounter between the modern design techniques and the traditional culture-based services.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationCross-Cultural Design. Applications in Cultural Heritage, Creativity and Social Development - 10th International Conference, CCD 2018, Held as Part of HCI International 2018, Proceedings
EditorsPei-Luen Patrick Rau
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages346-357
Number of pages12
ISBN (Print)9783319922515
DOIs
StatePublished - 2018
Externally publishedYes
Event10th International Conference on Cross-Cultural Design, CCD 2018 Held as Part of HCI International 2018 - Las Vegas, United States
Duration: 15 07 201820 07 2018

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume10912 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference10th International Conference on Cross-Cultural Design, CCD 2018 Held as Part of HCI International 2018
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityLas Vegas
Period15/07/1820/07/18

Bibliographical note

Publisher Copyright:
© Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018.

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

  1. SDG 11 - Sustainable Cities and Communities
    SDG 11 Sustainable Cities and Communities

Keywords

  • Cultural consumption
  • Heritage sites
  • Service design thinking

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