week 6. design probes

1. student presentations on "design probes for ACM SDC proposal"

2.
discussion on design probes

 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 next week)

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.

week 5. case study: Affective Diary

1. Student presentation on "living with data" investigation

Questions:
1. what does "living with data" mean? How are data related to "quality of life"?
2. What activities would users have regarding data? bodily perceive, emotionally respond, culturally interpret, self reflect, change behavior, ...
3. How could data embody in the life world?
4. Why is keeping diary related to well being? (http://affordanything.com/2012/03/16/change-your-life-in-less-than-one-minute/)

2. Case study on Affective Diary

 Experiencing the Affective Diary

week 4. ACM SDC & observation methods

1. Student presentation on ACM SDC issue: "Crossing"
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 3. 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. 21, 2014.

Reference:

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