week 6. probes as methods

References:
Gaver: Design: Cultural Probes, 1999
Wallace: How Design Probes Work, 2013

more detail examples in

Probe Tools (Task Cam)

TaskCam: Designing and Testing an Open Tool for Cultural Probes Studies (CHI18)

Making design probes work

Designing for an other Home: Expanding and Speculating on Different Forms of Domestic Life (DIS 18) (Diversifying the Domestic: A Design Inquiry into Collective and Mobile Living, DIS19)

Designing Memory Probes to Inform Dialogue (DIS18)

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Evaluation Probes

Perspective probe: many parts add up to a whole perspective

Medium probes: exploring the medium not the message

Urban probes: encountering our emerging urban atmospheres (CHI05)

See you on the subway: exploring mobile social software

Vulnerability of displacement: challenges for integrating refugees and asylum seekers in host communities

Making history: intentional capture of future memories

Researching sensitive topics: Adjusting cultural probes to research and identify design spaces for sensitive HCI.

Healthcare gamification Serious game about COVID-19 

Design in Quarantine

situated visualization & co-speculation

Sketching and Ideation Activities for Situated Visualization Design (DIS19)

Bespoke Booklets: A Method for Situated Co-Speculation (DIS19)

Botanical Printer: An Exploration on Interaction Design with Plantness (DIS18)

Exploring The Future of Data-Driven Product Design (CHI20)

IoT Data in the Home: Observing Entanglements and Drawing New Encounters (CHI20)

student example:

A World Following Farmer Almanac

Expected-Experience Entanglements
Confabulation Radio
Craft consciousness

Report:

  Each student present at least 5 interesting designs in Quarantine 

  (Oct 26, 2020)