week 9. probology

1. students present Cultural Probes for each team
2. 

Cultural probes from Rung-Huei Liang

3. introducing
"How HCI Interprets the Probes":

2. X-Probes:
(1) identify 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. original probes features v.s. x-probes

epistemology-> methodology -> methods
epistemology->probology->probes


References

Cultural probes and the value of uncertainty

Interpreting the Probes for final project, each team:
1. write down your own probology rules (or beliefs)
2. redesign your probes with various media and methods, according to your probology
3. collect probing data
4. interpret the data, seek the meanings, and perhaps the underlying intentionality behind phenomena.

week 8. probes as methods

1. ESP32CAM Tutorial Q/A

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

Recent cases:

Pop-Up Probes: Using Pop-up Paper Elements for Cultural Probes to Understand Domestic Routines (MuC '22)

How Design Researchers Interpret Probes: Understanding the Critical Intentions of a Designerly Approach to Research (CHI'21)

Tricky Design Probes: Triggering Reflection on Design Research Methods in Service Design (DIS'20)

Towards a Probe Design Framework (OZCHI'19)

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.

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:

1.  Each student present one type of probes in "How HCI Interprets the Probes" 

2. X-Probes:

(1) identify 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

  (canceled)

2. Final project progress report (Oct 30, 2024)

week 7. observation methods

tutorial: ESP32 CAM (by TA)

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?

Interaction design methods from Timo Arnall

smart things by M.

Chapter 14. Observation and Ideation


A bAsic observAtion method



1. Define the scope of the observation
2. Pick an audience
3. Observe for an extended period
4. Document observations
5. Interview representatives
6. Organize observations
7. Identify patterns
8. make recommendations


SPECIFIC METHODS:

14.1.2.1 digital ethnography and Public Photos

Ethnography and Design from The Added Value Group

14.1.2.2 diary studies
14.1.2.3 design Probes
           Cultural Probes
           Technology Probes

14.2 iDeatiOn

     IDEO methods cards
     IDEO methods cards app
 
     www.interactioncards.org


14.2.2 new ideAtion tools
14.2.2.1 crowdsourcing


1. Invite people to generate ideas using a fixed set of criteria.
2. generate hundreds or thousands of ideas.
3. Invite other people to evaluate the quality of the ideas generated by the people in the first
group. Use multiple people to evaluate each idea (or set of ideas) and average the results.
4. Use the highest rated ideas as seeds for further ideation in-house.

14.2.2.2 bodystorming

Methods intro diagram from Goldsmiths design

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

Designing Memory Probes to Inform Dialogue (DIS18)

Peekaboo Cam: Designing an Observational Camera for Home Ecologies Concerning Privacy

Designing PhenoProbe: An Interview Tool for Inquiring into the Phenological Knowledge of Taiwanese Elders (CHI24)

AI Cat Narrator: Designing an AI Tool for Exploring the Shared World and Social Connection with a Cat (DIS24)

Re.Dis.Cover Place with Generative AI: Exploring the Experience and Design of City Wandering with image-to-image AI (DIS24)

Final Project (ACM SDC Project Probes): stage 1 (initial probes design & interview)

(see week 1 introduction for submission info.)
1. Design you Probe Package (deadline 2024/10/30)
    Shoot all your package elements in row and column, upload to google drive.
2. Conduct Probing
3. Interview and Report (Deadline 2024/11/6)