This article contributes to methodological studies of constructive design research by explicating its underlying epistemological foundations. At the heart of this article is the notion of drifting, defined as those actions that move design from its original objective or question to sometimes unanticipated results. The article explicates four traditions of knowledge production as derived from a corpus based on PhD theses. These traditions relate knowledge production to methods, research programs, design experience, and to a dialectic between researchers and user communities. As a result, they form epistemological traditions.

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建设性设计研究人员如何漂移：四种认识论

本文通过解释其潜在的认识论基础，为建设性设计研究的方法论研究做出了贡献。本文的核心是漂移的概念，定义为将设计从最初的目标或问题转移到有时出乎意料的结果的那些行为。这篇文章从基于博士论文的语料库中阐述了知识生产的四种传统。这些传统将知识生产与方法、研究计划、设计经验以及研究人员和用户社区之间的辩证法联系起来。结果，它们形成了认识论传统。