Empirically validate the conceptual framework

Validate the conceptual framework for designing digital technology that supports social wellbeing in built environments through application to specific design projects, in order to assess its practical utility and identify dimensions or relationships requiring refinement.

Background

The chapter presents a conceptual framework comprising a social wellbeing dimensions model, a digital technology contribution matrix, and scope levels for technology contributions in built environments. The framework is synthesized from prior empirical studies rather than tested through new empirical applications.

The authors identify application to concrete design projects as necessary to determine whether the framework is practically useful and whether its component dimensions and relationships adequately represent technology-mediated social wellbeing in real design contexts. They further indicate that empirical application could reveal dimensions requiring refinement or addition.