considering tools for participative,playful concept generation`

Finished reading Brigid `Costello's Thesis.
further readings too..
especially useful to inform  design of 'cultural probe' to use in  participative, playful concept generation..

Isbister, K., Hook, K., Sharp, M. & Laaksolahti, J. 2006, ‘The Sensual Evaluation
Instrument: Developing an Affective Evaluation Tool’, Proceedings of
Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2006, Montreal, Canada,
ACM, pp. 1163–1172.

 Hutt's piece in Sutton Smith's book looks well worth a closer look.


Hutt, C. 1985, ‘Exploration and Play in Children’, in Child‘s Play, B. Sutton-Smith & R.
E. Herron (eds.), Robert E. Krieger Publishing, Florida, pp. 231–250.


The ''embodiment' of experience and the 'sensual'  through sound (sonics?) seem to contribute to the sense of transportation and transformative event..look at

Ihde, D. 2007, Listening and Voice: Phenomenologies of Sound, 2nd edn., State University
of New York Press, Albany, NY.

Overall Costello had an interesting frame work and some valuable lessons both in terms of structure and also in considering how to structure a practice led approach.