week 10. wabi-sabi

Expanding on Wabi-Sabi as a Design Resource in HCI

student presentation of case studies


History of Ideas: wabi-sabi


In search of wabi sabi (BBC)



Is Zen life wabisabi (曹洞宗)



道元禪師 (引進中國曹洞宗)


一代茶聖千利休 電影



Questions:

1. What is wabi-sabi
2. How to design with wabi-sabi?
3. How to relate wabi-sabi to slow design?

4. How to design wabi-sabi in Experiential AI?

Project 2. wabi-sabi as interaction design resource for Experiential AI
[Step 2] Ideation Cards: (constructive and generative methodology)

1. Collect concepts (or principles) related to Wabi-sabi

2. Collect your own design examples according to the principles

3. Select at least 22 examples for card-making

4. Create your own wabi-sabi design card deck for Experience AI.

Deadline 5/10, 2021

week 9. introducing material turn

Computational Compositions: Aesthetics, Materials, and Interaction Design, Wiberg, 
2010. 

"Material interactions": from atoms & bits to entangled practices, 2012, ACM CHI panel

Understanding agency in interaction design materials, 2012. (material talks back)

Methodology for materiality: interaction design research through a material lens, Wiberg, 2013. (Methodology)

Giving form to computational things: developing a practice of interaction design, Anna Vallga˚rda, 2014. (Framework)

Electric materialities and interactive technology, James Pierce, 2013

PUC theme issue: material interactions, 2014. (special issue, PUC)

Broken probes: toward the design of worn media, Daniela Rosner, 2014 (wabi-sabi)

Interaction Design as a Bricolage Practice, Anna Vallgårda & Ylva Fernaeus, 2015

Expanding on Wabi-Sabi as a Design Resource in HCI, Vasiliki Tsaknaki & Ylva Fernaeus, 2016

FeltRadio: Sensing and Making Sense of Wireless Traffic, 2016

Questions:
1. How does Microboundary relate to Wabi-sabi
2. Wabi-sabi and system 1/2 thinkings?
3. What is the relationship between wabi-sabi and mindful interaction?


Student presentation on Wabi-Sabi & its design cases next week.

Reference:

Wabi-Sabi：給設計者、生活家的日式美學基礎

日本美學：物哀、幽玄、侘寂（全三冊）：從唯美的物哀，深遠的幽玄，到空無的侘寂。掌握日本美學關鍵的獨家著作。

week 8. data-driven culture as experience

 1. students present Project 1.

2. revisiting "Human-AI Interaction" in four levels:

   Yang, Q., Steinfeld, A., Rosé, C. and Zimmerman, J. 2020. Re-examining Whether, Why, and How Human-AI Interaction Is Uniquely Difficult to Design. Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (New York, NY, Apr. 2020), 1–13. https://doi.org/10.1145/3313831.3376301

Level 1: fixed output, with statistics, 

              example

give simple examples:　

output = f(input)

new output = f(nearest_input)

What is Human-in-the-Loop?

Arts and Humanity: Human-in-the-Loop

Questions:

  what is the role of human in AI system?

  How to collect data? how to label?

3. Data-driven culture, Data Storytelling

Qian Yang, Alex Scuito, John Zimmerman, Jodi Forlizzi, and Aaron Steinfeld. 2018. Investigating How Experienced UX Designers Effectively Work with Machine Learning. In Proceedings of the 2018 Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS '18). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 585–596. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3196709.3196730

Questions:

 What are your Data Storytelling strategies? Practical, fictional, or communicative?

4.  Machine Learning as Monsters?

Graham Dove and Anne-Laure Fayard. 2020. Monsters, Metaphors, and Machine Learning. In Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '20). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 1–17. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3313831.3376275

week 6. slow design & slow lab (Project 1)

Student presentation on:
The slow design principles

 Related design cases :
  Slow design by Barbara Grosse-Hering

Question and discussion:
1. what are the differences between slow tech and slow design?
2. What are the possible applied area of Redstrom's slow tech and the Slow Lab's design principles?


related papers in Slow Lab: (should we read?)

http://slowlab.net/RESOURCES/Resources-PUBLICATIONS-Slow-reading-s

Project 1 presentation: April 12, 2021
Slow Something:
  1. propose slow + another_thing (slow past, slow memory, slow future, slow radio...)
  2. discuss the time element (fast vs. slow), reflective aspects, amplifying environments (hide or reveal), form (simple or complex), material...

  3. discuss the AI type (level 1~ level 4) of your slow design and the possible AI types for different contexts.
  3. Sketch your design
  4. Evaluate your design, in terms of experiential AI, phenomenological description, interpretation, meanings, significance, aesthetics, ...etc.
  5. summarize design principles

week 5. evaluating slow technology

1. Reading "Evaluating Slow Technology"
2. Message with slow technology examples:

ChatterBox

slow message

SLOWLY app

https://www.futureme.org/

Cyberlink U Messenger app

GoSlow: designing for slowness, reflection and solitude

Pensieve: supporting everyday reminiscence

Photobox: on the design of a slow technology

The reflexive printer: toward making sense of perceived drawbacks in technology-mediated reminiscence

Reflexive printer from Benforest on Vimeo.

From 紙飛機 app to mettle

Mettle in HCII 2015

CrescendoMessage 2015

Aesthetics of Friction

Question: 

  1. How to design the quality of "Anticipation"?

  2. How to evaluate slow design?

  3. What is mindful interaction? How to relate it to slow design?

Reading articles:

1. Slow Technology

   p. 209 : Evaluating Slow Technology

   art work vs. tools  evaluation

   " in a way similar to the methods developed in art critique: cultivating evaluation as the art of explanation and understanding."

2. Slow Design for Meaningful Interaction

    introducing slow design principles

    Case study of JuicyMo:

      1. current use analysis 2. ideation of JuicyMo  3. explain relevance to 6 principles 4. user test with principle cards and semi-structured interview

3. Engagement through Embodiment

    propose 3 interaction movements

    analysis through interaction vocabularies (paired contrasts)

    levels of Richness, Control & Engagement (quantitatively)

Student presentation next week:

The slow design principles
 Slow design by Barbara Grosse-Hering

Homework 2:

Present at least 3 "slow technology" principles, describing the principles, giving examples, creating your own design cases.

Deadline 3/29

    

week 4. form, function & expression in Slow Tech

1. introduction to interaction design (Verplank's framework)
    Interaction Design Sketchbook

2.. reading: Slow Technology p. 209, Section 6, Form and Function

What is the form v.s. material of "slow technology"

 (1) Reflective technology

 (2) Time technology

 (3)  Amplified environments

  Section 8. Developing Guidelines for Slow Technology 

       . focus on slowness of appearance (materialisation, manifestation) and presence – the slow materialisation and design presence of form (F) 

    . focus on aesthetics of material and use simple basic tools of modern technology – the clear and simple design presence of matetial (M).

  Complex Form + Simple Material

examples:

http://entretags.de/long-living-chair/

Slow Games from Ishac Bertran on Vimeo.

Search "Slow Technology" in ACM DL

Why linear time? How about non-uniform speed of time?
https://www.pinterest.de/pin/299559812687097467/





example 1: "dark & big audio"  gradually changes to "light & silence"
example 2: "noisy & dark" gradually changes to "silent & bright"
example 3: INTOUCH project: 色溫 & 溫度

example 4: Mindball


example 5: Remind mirror

http://www.am2.jobs/index.cfm?pagetype=products&codeID=302422


Make your sketch of "cross-sensory" interaction for concentration
Exercise:
Slow technology design with "cross-sensory" reflection.
See p. 206, 4.2 the art of concentration

Reading next week:
The slow design principles

Homework 1:
  Search at least 3 "slow technology" interaction design projects.
  keywords: slow technology, slow design, slow interaction, slow game...
  Deadline: 3/22, 2021

Project 1:
Contrast your final project with "ordinary design" & "slow design"
Slow Technology interaction design sketch
Deadline: 3/ 29, 2021 (propose and discuss)

Deadline: 4/ 12, 2021 (propose and discuss)

week 3. AI meets UX

0. students present project proposals

What is AI?

What is UX? (research process)

How to frame AI parctically?

How to fast prototype AI experience?

What are typical human-AI interaction design issues? (fairness, intelligibility, user's sense of control)

 

Re-examining Whether, Why, and How Human-AI Interaction Is Uniquely Difficult to Design

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3313831.3376301

Prototyping AI:

1. Philip van Allen. 2018. Prototyping Ways of Prototyping

AI. Interactions 25, 6 (Oct. 2018), 46–51. DOI:

http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3274566

2. Esko Kurvinen, Ilpo Koskinen, and Katja Battarbee.

2008. Prototyping social interaction. Design Issues 24, 3

(2008), 46–57.

Human-AI Design guidelines & issues:

1. Saleema Amershi, Dan Weld, Mihaela Vorvoreanu,

Adam Fourney, Besmira Nushi, Penny Collisson, Jina

Suh, Shamsi Iqbal, Paul Bennett, Kori Inkpen, Jaime

Teevan, Ruth Kikin-Gil, and Eric Horvitz. 2019.

Guidelines for Human-AI Interaction. ACM.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/guidelines-for-human-ai-interaction/

2. Margaret Mitchell, Simone Wu, Andrew Zaldivar,

Parker Barnes, Lucy Vasserman, Ben Hutchinson, Elena

Spitzer, Inioluwa Deborah Raji, and Timnit Gebru. 2019.

Model Cards for Model Reporting. In Proceedings of the

Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and

Transparency (FAT* ’19). Association for Computing

Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 220–229. DOI:

http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3287560.3287596

3. https://2021.ai/fairness-in-ai/