week 11. phenomenology & ethnography

First :
 Things making Things: An Ethnography of the Impossible


What is ethnography ?
What is phenomenology?
How do they relate to design?


1.

Ethnographic vs Phenomenological Research Designs

2. Qualitative methodologies: ethnography, phenomenology, grounded theory and more

3. very short introduction:

Notes on Ethnography and Design

4. Blomberg et al. 經典:
An Ethnographic Approach to Design

5. Ethnographic Data Analysis:
     http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~irene/l17-ethnography_analysis.pdf


Question:
1. how to apply ethnography (/phenomenology) to "cultural probes", how to apply ethnography (/phenomenology) to the study of design artifacts?

2. when to use ethnography? when to use phenomenology?

week 10. framing design

1. work in progress report
   check: themes, and strong concepts

   example : interaction Tarot

2. Framing design

Framing design in the Third Paradigm

Reference:
The Three Paradigms of HCI

week 9. strong concepts

1. work-in-progress report of cultural probes

2. Calm technology Exercise and possible probe discussion

3. Strong concepts

1. Jonas Löwgren. 2013. Annotated portfolios and other forms of intermediate-level knowledge.interactions 20, 1 (January 2013), 30-34.

2. Kristina Höök and Jonas Löwgren. 2012. Strong concepts: Intermediate-level knowledge in interaction design research. ACM Trans. Comput.-Hum. Interact. 19, 3, Article 23 (October 2012), 18 pages.

(pp. 23:11- 23:13)
4 constructs:
1. contextual grounding
2. horizontal grounding
3. vertical grounding
4. reflection, articulation, and abstraction

4.

Between theory and practice: bridging concepts in HCI research

5. 

Designing calm technology and peripheral interaction for offshore service vessels

Probing calmness in applications using a calm display prototype

Guidelines for Design Process:
1. Interpret your data with rich interpretation, inspiration, imagination, and discourse.
2. Specify several "themes" related to the above interpretation.
3. Build "strong concepts" (in terms of 4 constructs) to meet these themes
4. Give form to these strong concepts, such as mood boards, and cards.
5. Discuss possible expressions (如何用 expression 開展設計) for your design based on these strong concepts

week 8. probe discussion

1. students present probe and probing insights
2. more detail examples in
 

Making design probes work

Designing for an other Home: Expanding and Speculating on Different Forms of Domestic Life (DIS 18)

Evaluation Probes

Perspective probe: many parts add up to a whole perspective

Medium probes: exploring the medium not the message

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

3. preparing exercises in
   https://calmtech.com/exercises.html

week 7. probology

1. students present Cultural Probes for each team
2. discussing Calm Technology
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.

Deadlines: Nov. 12, 2018.

week 6. cultural probes

1. student report of "living with data"

2. cultural probes: discussion:
    Gaver's original paper review



3. introducing calm technology:

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


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


Exercises for Calm Technology design: (Deadline Nov. 5. 2018)
1. Take an exercise in https://calmtech.com/exercises.html
2. Design with your own intuition
3. Design possible cultural probes to get deeper insights

week 5. 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?

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


ACM SDC Project Probes:
1. Design you Probe Package (deadline 2018/10/22)
    Shoot all your package elements in row and column, upload to google drive.
2. Conduct Probing
3. Interview and Report (Deadline 2018/10/29)