User experience research has recently been characterized in two camps, model based and design based, with contrasting approaches to measurement and evaluation. This paper argues that the two positions can be constructed in terms of Deleuze and Guattari’s “royal science” and “minor science”. It is argued that the “reinvention” of cultural probes is an example of a minor scientific methodology re-conceptualised as a royal scientific “technology”. The distinction between royal and minor science provides insight into the nature of legitimacy within contemporary HCI research practice.
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