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Innovation and creativity are highly valued concepts in today's industrial discourses. Interdisciplinary teams are seen as a way to avoid innovation failures (people centered design). Also in European research culture these ideas are put into practice during collaborate projects between universities and R&I company labs. Theoretical discourses on this topic are omnipresent, but showing impact of interdisciplinary work stays difficult because reflections on how this works in practice is limited. From a STS perspective we want to analyze the displacement between the plans and the path(s) such a team took, to learn more about the complex constellation and situational drivers that help or withheld the concepts of "interdisciplinary research" and "people centered design" to be realized in practice. Our case is the trajectory of the Belgian team working with members at universities and in industry during the ITEA2 project DIYSE. The project resulted in "Sensetale", an Internet-of-Things application creation platform that makes it possible for non-technical users to create own visualizations of self-installed sensors and defined concepts. In this paper a self-reflective study on the meta-process is presented, using interviews with the team reflecting on different types of the boundary objects (presentations, demonstrators, user research material, pictures, ...) as data. Starting to trace back from the Sensetale platform as a formal end point, we present the different views in the team on "interdisciplinary research". In this way we try to recollect the paths that turned into dead ends and the informal, less visible impact. Finally, the main lessons learned are presented, e.g creating new mixed methods, tracing impact. |
