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.
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?
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
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.
(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)
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?
3. How will the broken IT product become further broken? Can you imagine a "kintsugi" style of your IT product in terms of material or metaphor? What if GAI can generate some samples for you?
5. Understanding media: the extension of man (媒體: 人的延伸)
McLuhan’s tetrad of the media :
What does the medium enhance, referring to the way in which a new medium enhances or amplifies an existing medium?
What does the new medium make obsolete, or in other terms, does the new medium eventually render an existing medium obsolete?
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?
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?
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]
McLuhan, M.; McLuhan, E. Laws of Media: The New Science; University of Toronto Press: Toronto, Canada, 1992; ISBN 9780802077158. [Google Scholar]
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. 2, 2024.
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
3. ACM student design competition 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:
EX1: Broken IT probes (Sept. 25, 2024)
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...
