week 7. design probes

1. students share "design probes"

Observation and Ideation (Smart Things)

Reference papers:
1. Design: Cultural Probes
2. Making Design Probes Work

Reference:
1. Hilary Hutchinson, Wendy Mackay, Bo Westerlund, Benjamin B. Bederson, Allison Druin, Catherine Plaisant, Michel Beaudouin-Lafon, Stéphane Conversy, Helen Evans, Heiko Hansen, Nicolas Roussel, and Björn Eiderbäck. 2003. Technology probes: inspiring design for and with families. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems(CHI '03). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 17-24.

2. Kirsten Boehner, Janet Vertesi, Phoebe Sengers, and Paul Dourish. 2007. How HCI interprets the probes. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '07). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 1077-1086.
(student present 2-week later)

 Probology:
(1) identity probes
(2) urban probes
(3) domestic probes
(4) value probes
(5) empathy probes
(6) mobile probes
(7) digital cultural probes
(8) cognitive probes
(9) technology probes

3. Eric Paulos and Chris Beckmann. 2006. Sashay: designing for wonderment. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '06), Rebecca Grinter, Thomas Rodden, Paul Aoki, Ed Cutrell, Robin Jeffries, and Gary Olson (Eds.). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 881-884.


How to conduct "object-oriented ethnography"? Ref: An Internet of Social Things

week 6. cultural probes

cultural probes: discussion

introducing calm technology:

http://calmtechnology.com/presentations/esriuc-2014-designing-calm-technology.html


Reference:
http://calmtechnology.com/papers/

week 5. observation methods

1.  ACM SDC issue discussion
2. Introducing Observation Methods

Questions:
1. What is Observation in Design Process?
2. What observation methods are there?
3. What is the method of Cultural Probes?
4. How to design Cultural Probes ?
5. How to collect/analyse/interpret data?


For ACM SDC, present your Design Probes (toolkit and data returned if possible) and your interpretation (or intention for possible return).
presentation date Oct. 28, 2014.



Observation and Ideation (Smart Things)

Reference papers:
1. Design: Cultural Probes
2. Making Design Probes Work

week 4. ubiquitous computing

Ubiquitous Computing

Discussion on
Mark Weiser, Computer for the 21st Century

Questions:
1. How do we live with data?
2. How do we perceive (feel) the data we live with?
3. What is the form of data to live with?

Conduct an activity to answer the above questions.
Presentation date: Oct. 20, 2015.

Reference:

connected body 
Experiencing the Affective Diary
Reflecting on the design process of the Affective Diary