Bodystorming with Hawkins’s block: Toward a new methodology for mobile media design

Abstract

Inspired by the intuitive prototyping method employed by Palm Pilot founder Jeff Hawkins, this formative field study recreates and reimagines his generative techniques as a new methodology that could be useful for mobile media designers. Viewed theoretically through an activity theory lens, this approach also integrates bodystorming ideals as a way to externalize and embody user perspectives about the potential of place-based media, in situ, using a proposed National Park Service app, funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, as an example. Such data gathering, especially early in the design process, could help user-centered projects gather otherwise inaccessible feedback, leading to better designs, through tailored content and interfaces, particularly at the dynamic intersections of digital and physical space.

Métodos, técnicas e ferramentas para a geração de ideias sob a perspectiva da experiência corporal

“…Para desenvolver a percepção corporal, autores se apoiam em abordagens somáticas (SEGURA; VIDAL; ROSTAMI, 2016;SEGURA et al, 2016;WILDE;VALLGARDA;TOMICO, 2017;TSAKNAKI et al, 2019) e adotam princípios teóricos e práticos de estudos no campo da fenomenologia (GONGORA, 2011;OPPEGAARD;STILL, 2013;THOLANDER, 2014;WILDE;VALLGARDA;TOMICO, 2017).…”

“…Na perspectiva das ciências cognitivas, destacam-se a cognição situada, incorporada e distribuída (SCHLEICHER; JONES; KACHUR, 2010;OPPEGAARD;STILL, 2013;WILDE;VALLGARDA;TOMICO, 2017). Ainda, tem-se a intersecção disciplinar das áreas de projetos, design e engenharia, assumindo procedimentos populares e tradicionais, complementando-os com novas práticas e novas visões de mundo.…”

Mobile Learning

“…In this stage, a mode of participatory design known as Bodystorming was adopted. Bodystorming emerged in the 1950s (Osborn, 1963) and is often considered a way to generate ideas and a form of start prototyping in context ( Oulasvirta, Kurvinen, & Kankainen, 2003;Oppegaard & Still, 2013;Foo & Mårtensson, 2016;). According to Maguire (2001a), the awareness of context issues grew in the mid-1980s, promoted by the work of Whiteside and his colleagues who 'found that although many products performed well in their laboratory experiments, they did not work when transferred to the real world.…”