week 2. cultural probes

https://interactions.acm.org/archive/view/march-april-2019/probetools

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Cultural probes from Rung-Huei Liang

References:
Gaver: Design: Cultural Probes, 1999
Wallace: How Design Probes Work, 2013

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

Technology probes: inspiring design for and with families

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.

Critical viewpoint:

How HCI Interprets the Probes

 Probology: 

(1) identity 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

Questions:

How do Cultural Probes use Tangibility and Embodied skills to investigate and interpret the situated contexts?

How do 6 propositions in Technology as Experience guide the Cultural Probes?

Exercise 1: (deadline 3/7)

1. Choose 1 embodied interaction design case (in CHI, TEI, DIS)

2. Redesign the possible cultural probes for this case (according to Gaver's original ideas and Embodied skills) 

3. Explain with at least 200 words