Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Considering cultural probes

…it was through games, play, techniques of surprise and methodologies of the
fantastic that [the Surrealists] subverted academic modes of enquiry, and
undermined the complacent certainties of the reasonable and respectable.
- Mel Gooding  
                                                                                                                                      
  I'm looking at the idea of cultural probes  as a starting point for this research- take  a probe of the lived experience of a children's ward first then go from there..rather than saying
" here is my design I giveth unto you..."     

reading  paper Cultural Probes and the Value of Uncertainty
William W. Gaver, Andrew Boucher, Sarah Pennington and Brendan Walker
Interaction Design, Royal College of Art  2004                                                                                                                                                                 Gaver, W., Boucher, A., Pennington, S., and Walker, B. (2004). Cultural Probes and the value of uncertainty.  Interactions, VolumeXI.5, pp.53-56.                                                                                                     
Gaver, W.W., Dunne, A., & Pacenti, E. (1999). Cultural Probes. Interactions
vi(1), 21–29.                                                                                                                                                 
look for these papers too..
                                                                                                                             
Gaver, W.H., Hooker, B. and Dunne, A. (1999b) The Presence Project, London: Department of Interaction Design (ISBN 1-874175-32-2).

Gaver, W. (2001) “Designing for ludic aspects of everyday
life”, ERCIM News, No.47.
www.ercim.org/publication/Ercim_News/enw47/gaver.html

Gaver, W. (2002) Domestic Probes,
www.crd.rca.ac.uk/equator/PROBE.htm   
  
Designing probes for empathy with familiesW Horst, T Bunt, S Wensveen

Using cultural probes to design services also this



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