Unfolding understandings: co-designing UbiComp In Situ, over time
Unfolding understandings: co-designing UbiComp In Situ, over time
A key challenge in co-designing UbiComp is that users may have limited understanding or experience of these technologies. While the value of situated co-design activities for promoting understanding is known, the role of time is less well researched. Here we describe and reflect on a range of co-design activities carried out with the curators of an historic English manor house to create novel visitor tours. We show how an ensemble of situated co-design activities over time led to the unfolding of user understanding around issues of content, technology and user experience, in turn leading to a progressive re-imagining of practice. This points to the importance of time and variety of in-situ activities to help people engage as co-designers in creating novel UbiComp-enabled experiences.
Ubiquitous computing, co-design, in-situ methods, time, public spaces, user experience, tour guides.
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Halloran, John
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Halloran, John, Hornecker, Eva, Fitzpatrick, Geraldine, Weal, Mark J., Millard, David E., Michaelides, Danius T., Cruickshank, Don G. and De Roure, David C.
(2006)
Unfolding understandings: co-designing UbiComp In Situ, over time.
Symposium on Designing Interactive Systems archive, in Proceedings of the 6th ACM conference on Designing Interactive systems, University Park, PA, United States.
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A key challenge in co-designing UbiComp is that users may have limited understanding or experience of these technologies. While the value of situated co-design activities for promoting understanding is known, the role of time is less well researched. Here we describe and reflect on a range of co-design activities carried out with the curators of an historic English manor house to create novel visitor tours. We show how an ensemble of situated co-design activities over time led to the unfolding of user understanding around issues of content, technology and user experience, in turn leading to a progressive re-imagining of practice. This points to the importance of time and variety of in-situ activities to help people engage as co-designers in creating novel UbiComp-enabled experiences.
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Symposium on Designing Interactive Systems archive, in Proceedings of the 6th ACM conference on Designing Interactive systems, University Park, PA, United States, 2006-01-01
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Ubiquitous computing, co-design, in-situ methods, time, public spaces, user experience, tour guides.
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Eva Hornecker
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Danius T. Michaelides
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Don G. Cruickshank
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David C. De Roure
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