Cultural probes in the design of communication

McDougall, Zoe; Fels, Sidney

doi:10.1145/1878450.1878460

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“…The established set of methods used during the interview is framed by accompanying tools and steps before and after the actual interview (see figure 1). Preparations included workshop sessions and Cultural Probes (Gaver et al, 1999;Vesa & Mattelmäki, 2003;Matthews & Horst, 2008;McDougall & Fels, 2010) about everyday life and household duties. During the preparation participants with different backgrounds were asked to self-observe their everyday life through the use of Cultural Probes.…”

Section: Decrypting Actions Through Design Research Toolsmentioning

confidence: 99%

DRS2016: Future-Focused Thinking

2016

Proceedings of DRS

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In this paper we explore the evolution of response from design discipline to sustainability issues. Following a quasi-chronological pattern, our exploration provides an overview of the Design for Sustainability (DfS) field, categorising the approaches developed in the past two decades under four innovation levels: Product, Product-Service System, Spatio-Social and Socio-Technical System. As a result of this overview, we propose an evolutionary framework and map the reviewed DfS approaches onto this framework. The proposed framework synthesizes the evolution of DfS field, showing how it has progressively expanded from a technical and product-centric focus towards large scale system level changes in which sustainability is understood as a socio-technical challenge. The framework also shows how the various DfS approaches contribute to particular sustainability aspects and visualise linkages, overlaps and complementarities between these approaches.

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Section: Decrypting Actions Through Design Research Toolsmentioning

confidence: 99%

DRS2016: Future-Focused Thinking

2016

Proceedings of DRS

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“…While cultural probes focus on demand-side reactions [14], the initiatives we analyzed were poking on both the demand and supply side under high levels of uncertainty in search of needsolution pairs [11]. We introduce the term "entrepreneurial probing" because it is used to expand the landscape for innovation opportunities.…”

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