Climbing the cool wall

Fitton, Daniel; Horton, Matthew; Read, Janet C.; Little, Linda; Toth, Nicola

doi:10.1145/2212776.2223758

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“…Drawing on this tradition various researchers have involved teenage participants in making activities to provide inspiration to designers, for example using workshops [15,12,14] , visual materials and technology probes [15] , role playing activities [14] , Lego Serious Play [20] , and comic-strip creation, scenario visualisation, and drawing and labelling facial expressions [8] . Some projects have involved teenage participants in various kinds of rating activities to help designers understand their preferences and priorities, for example, using a ‘cool wall’ [21] or by card sorting and dot voting [14] . Finally, some projects have worked with teenagers directly developing ideas for digital systems using e.g.…”

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“…This cultural reference was selected before we met most of our young participants, but seemed to be a good match to our goal of exploring what they found interesting, and reflected some of the playfulness that we hoped to include in our programme of design activities. At that time, we were not aware of others’ use of cool walls, which was published subsequently (e.g., [21] ). In our workshop, we introduced our ‘cool wall’ activity by referring to ‘Top Gear’, and groups selected and rated everyday items from a retail catalogue alongside familiar diabetes equipment and technological innovations with the potential for diabetes care then explained their choices and ratings at the end of the session ( Fig.…”

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Engaging teenagers productively in service design

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Wolstenholme

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International Journal of Child-Computer Interaction

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Engaging young people in participatory design can be challenging, particularly in health-related projects. In a study co-designing diabetes support and information services with teenagers, we found framing activities using popular culture was a useful strategy. Various cultural references helped us stage activities that were productive for the design process, and were engaging for our young participants (e.g. exploring practical implications through discussions in a ‘Dragons’ Den’). Some activities were more effective than others and the idea of language-games, which has been widely explored in participatory design, explains why our strategy was successful when there was a clear ‘family resemblance’ between the popular cultural references and certain essential stages of designing. However, attention is required in selecting appropriate cultural references if this strategy is adopted elsewhere, and design facilitators should focus first on devising accessible language-games, rather than expecting popular cultural references to provide complete solutions to the challenge of staging participatory design.

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Engaging teenagers productively in service design

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Wolstenholme

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International Journal of Child-Computer Interaction

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“…The first study was aimed at the base of the model and was intended to better understand how things were, or were not, cool. This study, termed 'the Cool Wall', which was reported in some detail in (Fitton, Horton, & Read, 2012) allowed teenagers to categorise a set of images as cool or uncool. The Cool Wall provided an interactive visual tool that allowed pictures to be sorted into four categories ('seriously uncool', 'uncool', 'cool', 'subzero') using a touchscreen ( Figure 2).…”

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On Being Cool – Exploring Interaction Design for Teenagers

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Horton

Fitton

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Electronic Workshops in Computing

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This paper describes a suite of studies that investigated 'cool' as it applies to the design of interactive products for teenagers. Beginning with a hierarchy of cool that situated cool across three dimensions of having, doing, and being cool, the studies reported here are described in terms of their findings and the extent to which they confirm the model. The contribution, and potential, of the different methods used, in terms of their ability to describe aspects of the model and the insights gained from the findings, are discussed The work demonstrates that the model was indeed appropriate, and the combination of methods described here goes a considerable distance towards covering the exploration of the design space. For the current construction of cool, a set of key aspects for its design is presented and these concepts are demonstrated in a small example. In terms of understanding cool, it is evident that this is a complex design space; one surprising aspect of the work is an understanding of how to avoid the design of uncool. Teenagers. Cool. Interaction Design. Requirements.

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The Digital Life of Vulnerable Users: Designing with Children, Patients, and Elderly

Culén

Velden

2013

Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing

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Climbing the cool wall

Cited by 6 publications

References 5 publications

Engaging teenagers productively in service design

Engaging teenagers productively in service design

On Being Cool – Exploring Interaction Design for Teenagers

The Digital Life of Vulnerable Users: Designing with Children, Patients, and Elderly

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