week 12. 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 11. framing design

1. work in progress report

   check: themes, and strong concepts

   example : interaction Tarot
   https://interactiontarot.wordpress.com/

   

2. Framing design

Framing design in the Third Paradigm

Reference:
The Three Paradigms of HCI

Interaction Tarot: A Card-BasedDesign of Knowledge Construction for Brainstorming in HCI.

Poetics of Future Work: Blending Speculative Design withArtistic Methodology

week 10. strong concepts

1. work-in-progress report of cultural probes


2. 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

Somaesthetic Appreciation Design (CHI15)

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 9. probe discussion

1. students (in group) present probe toolkits

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

[progress report]

Data collection report of  probes in final project Nov. 14th

week 8. 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.

Deadlines: Nov. 14, 2022.

week 7. probes as methods

1. Students present "EX2: living with data"

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" 

  (Oct 24, 2022)

2. Final project progress report (Oct 24, 2022)

week 5. presentation & discussion

1. Students present proposals for ACM submission.

2. EX2: Living with data  (10/17)

             auto-ethnography method

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.
Presentation date: Oct. 3, 2022. Oct. 17, 2022

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

3. short introduction to "back to the real world"