week 3. ubiquitous computing and calm technology

1. Broken IT probes 
reference frames: object -> practice -> meanings
reference theory: activity theory (on interaction design org)

reference book: Understanding Media by McLuhan (麥克魯漢， 認識媒體)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Understanding_Media

1, 媒體四大律:
增強?削弱?重拾?反轉?
(參考"數位麥克魯漢")

2. hot media vs. cool media (熱媒體 vs. 冷媒體)

3. rear-view mirror (後視鏡理論現象)

4. The medium is the message (媒體即訊息)

5. Understanding media: the extension of man (媒體: 人的延伸)

McLuhan’s tetrad of the media :

• Enhance: What does the medium enhance, referring to the way in which a new medium enhances or amplifies an existing medium?
• Obsolete: What does the new medium make obsolete, or in other terms, does the new medium eventually render an existing medium obsolete?
• Retrieve: What does the medium retrieve that had been obsolesced earlier, referring to how a new medium can bring back something that was previously lost or forgotten?
• Reverse: What does the medium reverse or flip into when pushed to extremes, describing how a new medium can eventually be used in a way that is opposite to its original intended purpose?

group discussion: 

   find examples of tetrad of the media. (you can ask AI)

References:

1. Takkeci, Mehmet Sarper, and Arzu Erdem. 2024. "McLuhan’s Tetrad as a Tool to Interpret the Impact of Online Studio Education on Design Studio Pedagogy" Trends in Higher Education 3, no. 2: 273-296. https://doi.org/10.3390/higheredu3020017
2. McLuhan, M.; Powers, B.R. The Global Village: Transformations in World Life and Media in the 21st Century; Communication and Society; Oxford University Press: New York, NY, USA, 1989; ISBN 9780195079104. [Google Scholar]
3. McLuhan, M.; McLuhan, E. Laws of Media: The New Science; University of Toronto Press: Toronto, Canada, 1992; ISBN 9780802077158. [Google Scholar]

Thing ethnography?

Thing Constellation?

(The co-occurrence of things) 

Elisa Giaccardi, Nazli Cila, Chris Speed, and Melissa Caldwell. 2016. Thing Ethnography: Doing Design Research with Non-Humans. In Proceedings of the 2016 ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (DIS '16). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 377–387. https://doi.org/10.1145/2901790.2901905

Yu-Ting Cheng, Mathias Funk, Wenn-Chieh Tsai, and Lin-Lin Chen. 2019. Peekaboo Cam: Designing an Observational Camera for Home Ecologies Concerning Privacy. In Proceedings of the 2019 on Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS '19). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 823–836. https://doi.org/10.1145/3322276.3323699

Yi-Ching (Janet) Huang, Yu-Ting Cheng, Rung-Huei Liang, Jane Yung-jen Hsu, and Lin-Lin Chen. 2021. Thing Constellation Visualizer: Exploring Emergent Relationships of Everyday Objects. Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 5, CSCW2, Article 479 (October 2021), 29 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3479866

2. Ubiquitous Computing / Calm Technology / Ambient Intelligence

Discussion on
Mark Weiser, Computer for the 21st Century
Mark Weiser, Designing Calm Technology

3. 

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?
4. How are the correlation of different data?

EX2: living with data

Conduct an activity to answer the above questions.

consider what if AI can help to create a data fiction?

Presentation date: Oct. 12, 2026.

References:

Paul Dourish and Edgar Gómez Cruz. 2018. Datafication and data fiction: Narrating data and narrating with data. Big Data & Society 5, 2 (2018). 

Felix Heibeck, Alexis Hope, and Julie Legault. 2014. Sensory Fiction: A Design Fiction of Emotional Computation. In Proceedings of the 2nd ACM International Workshop on Immersive Media Experiences (ImmersiveMe '14). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 35–40. https://doi.org/10.1145/2660579.2660585

Case study:
Objects of Research

Ambient Devices (where is ambient orb or umbrella?)


Reference:
Ambient Intelligence
best smart home devices
Experiencing the Affective Diary
Reflecting on the design process of the Affective Diary

Enhancing ubiquitous computing with user interpretation: field testing the home health horoscope

week 2. self-introduction & IoT presentation

Suggested Presentation & critique guidelines:

1. BPMRC (structure about research, plan, novel idea, ...)
    Background (problem, idea, gap)
    Purpose (better future, intended future)
    Method (framing, approach, tool)
    Result (outcome, expected output)
    Conclusion

2. MEFF (structure about describing a design artifact)
    Material (idea, problem, issue)
    Expression (metaphor, scenarios, emotion)
    Function  (task, path, technology)
    Form (representation, affordance)


Activities:

1. 自我介紹，專長，個人惡趣味。

    students present personal complicated pleasures 
2. Students Present IoT examples

https://builtin.com/articles/iot-examples

https://www.coursera.org/articles/internet-of-things

https://ixdf.org/literature/topics/internet-of-things

Liang's Publications and Slides:
https://jazzliang.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/1387-1b.pdf

https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/understanding-expressions-of-internet-of-things/15481344

3. ACM student-research-competition/poster  Kick-off presentation
    What is the plan for design?
    How do you frame your problem?
    Which method do you want to use?
    What approach? Theory driven? Example based? Fictional paper abstract?
    Probing Example:

     Designing Memory Probes to Inform Dialogue

      How Design Researchers Interpret Probes

      Cultural Probes in ixdf

 
     presentation next week: Sept. 21, 2026

   ACM Student Research Competition: (Deadline Jan. 21, 2027)

https://chi2027.acm.org/authors/student-research-competition/

(only one author for graduate students)

ACM SIGCHI Posters: (Deadline Jan. 21, 2027)

https://chi2027.acm.org/authors/posters/

(one or multiple authors) 

DIS examples:

   DIS 2019 poster example Farmer Almanac
   DIS pictorial example Botanic Printer

ACM　DIS paper/ pictorials 

https://dis.acm.org/2027/contributing/

• January 11th, 2027, Full paper and Pictorials Abstract and Title
• January 18th, 2027 –  Full papers, Pictorials

4. Discussion on Weiser's "The computer for 21st Century"

"The most profound technologies are those that disappear.

They weave themselves into the fabric of everyday life until

they are indistinguishable from it."

Reference:

"Smart Mobs: The next social revolution" Chapter 4.

"聰明行動族" 第四章 pp. 129~175

also https://noetic.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/s2_rheingold.pdf

EX1: Broken IT probes (Oct. 5, 2026)
1. collect at least one "out-of-date" (old, worn) IT (information technology) product.

2. how do you repair the IT product? Does it work? Which technology goes out-of-date or completely disappears?
3. What did this IT replace the other things in old days? By what object is this IT product replace.  
4. How do you frame this IT product in terms of technology, practice, ritual, meanings...

5. Consider what if AI can help analyzing probes data?

Upload to Google drive (shown in FB community)

舊書修復: (repairing the old book)

week 1. introduction

How this course goes:

1. 學生為主體的學習 (報告、討論、帶領工作坊、參與競賽)
    Students as learning subjects (report, discussion, workshop holding, competition)

2. 自主學習設計方法、設計工具、設計流程。
    self learning design methods, design tools, design process

3. 自行蒐集設計資料、定義問題、製作設計工具。
    self collecting data, framing problems, making design tool

4. 自行訂定設計評估方法，使用者調查方法。
    self designing evaluation methods, user study methods

學習內容:
What to learn:

1. 互動設計領域重要論文研讀 (Ubi-comp, Tangible interaction, Calm tech, / Slow tech, critical/reflective/ludic/speculative design, material interaction)

2. 互動設計研究方法學 (probology, research through design, / dialogical meaning-making, phenomenology)

3. 互動設計個案實作 (SIGCHI/DIS submission)

個人報告  (Sept. 14, /2026)
1. 自我介紹 (self-intro)
2. 惡趣味介紹 (complicated pleasure sharing)

3. 智慧型設計分享 (IOT examples) 九組擇一分享。(choose one category to share next week in classroom) (What is IOT?)

競賽相關

course outcomes targeting:

ACM CHI 2027 Student Research Competition

ACM CHI 2027 Posters Submission

1. 組隊 (2-5 人/隊) (2-5 students as a team)

2. 報告比賽規則, Q&A, discussion (Sept. 9, 2026)

期末: (final)

 組隊投稿 ACM 學生設計競賽/SIGCHI  Posters。
 Team up to participate ACM Student Research Competition or SIGCHI Posters.

ACM Student Research Competition: (Deadline Jan. 21, 2027)

https://chi2027.acm.org/authors/student-research-competition/

(only one author for graduate students)

ACM SIGCHI Posters: (Deadline Jan. 21, 2027)

https://chi2027.acm.org/authors/posters/

(one or multiple authors) 

Examples in the previous semesters:

Objects Gossip (CHI'26)

Wabi-Sabi ritual (CHI'26)

Dream Relay (CHI'25)

AI Cat Narrator (DIS'24)

Re.Dis.Cover Place with Generative AI (DIS'24)

Designing PhenoProbe (CHI'24) 

Experiential Persona (CHI'21)

Designing a Speculative Kit for Technology Imagination with Makers (CHI'20)

Call Me by My Name (CHI'19)

A World Following Farmer Almanac (DIS'19)

Expected-Experience Entanglements (CHI'19)
Confabulation Radio (CHI'19)

Once Upon a Future (DIS'18)

Craft consciousness (CHI'15)

Readings:
Mark Weiser, Computer for the 21st Century

評分方式: (Grading)
1. 個人表現 60% + 團隊表現 40 %
    Personal performance 60% + Team performance 40 %

2. 評分項目: 課堂出席、參與討論﹐、互相評論、競賽作品完整度。
    Evaluation items: course participation, discussion, critique, completeness of ACM competition

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