REFLECTION ON WORKSHOPS _ cycle 2

ID4250 Exploring Interactions 2012-2013 Interacting In Tomorrows Society _Social City 4205006 Young-In Park

Workshop Interaction Prototyping

Introduction
The announced goal of this workshop was to give us a chance to test design ideas utilizing group members. Though I had one design idea, I had no idea how to prototype the idea and how to utilize my group members, I decided to use this workshop to discuss my design idea together with the members.

Method

Version B Version A

I prepared two versions of sketches of Arrivals hall. Version A describes the normal situation of Arrivals hall in an airport excluding people. On the other hand, in Arrivals hall in Version B, my design idea is implemented. All parts of the idea are described here; the touch-pad screens on the fences, the big projected screen on the wall, and people around those new facilities show possible using scenarios. What I planned to do at this workshop was to; (1) Introduce my new interaction vision to the group members. (2) Give them Version A and let them brainstrom and sketch on it; design ideas which they think t the interaction vision. (3) Let them briey explain their ideas. (4) Show them Version B and explain my idea. (5) Discuss. So my intention was to inspire my group members and myself to come up with ideas by providing a large but also largely empty sketch of the situation (Arrivals hall). I thought the discussion session could be more useful and eective by letting other members brainstorming and generating ideas by themselves before discussion.

Workshop Interactive Prototyping

Result & Epilogue
But in the workshop, the steps I prepared didnt work well because of lack of time. I extemporaneously skipped the rst steps and directly explained my design ideas and discuss with them. Still, I could get good inspirations from others feedbacks. The interesting idea we reached at discussion was about the other use of Avatar system. With Avatars on the screen, other people can try to match those with real people coming out from the door. And these people might be able to help the person nd the person, or greet to the arriving person together with waiting person, like Hi, Bill! Welcome, Bill!. I really liked Greeting together and they act like they already knew each other personally and this perfectly ts my interaction vision. However I was strongly doubtful about practicality of this idea. I was not sure whether people tend to work with the touch screens to make avatars and show to other people, whether people can actually recognize a person from an avatar and whether people would like to help to nd or greet together. So the next step is test this idea, and see which aspects of it can be developed further.

Workshop Interactive Prototyping Reective Notes for me from Samuel

Workshop Interactive Prototyping Reective Notes for Amit from me

Re ective Note for Amit

by Young -in

Workshop Interactive Prototyping 22/11/2012

Picture 1. Making combinations during the workshop

Picture 2.A band on a coee table idea

Amit brought sheets of paper to the workshop. Illustrations of several kinds of hairstyles, top clothes, and musical instruments are printed on the paper sheets. He briely explained his design goal and a new interaction vision and let us play with these sheets, try some combinations [Picture1], and tell what we thought about it. Below are some comments we came up with after trying Amits design prototype. 1. Its missing the reason a person needs to take an action to appreciate another persons taste. Why would people do that? 2. An association between a certain icon and a certain genre of music needs to be stronger. The illustrations now are somehow weak to represent ones taste of music. (They are more like fashion tastes.) 3. There needs to be a connection between actions of making avatar and interacting with others. Amit was thinking of interacting in a digital way (i.e. through mobile app) but we suggested immediate, direct interaction be more powerful.

Amit made it clear that he wanted to keep the core goals of this idea, which are time-illing at the coffee corner and expressing a taste of music. Then we together started generating ideas based on that. An idea we reached at the end was about making a musical band with others on the table using coffee cups[Picture2]. One can take a paper-cup with a picture of a musical instrument which represents his music taste on and join a table with other people also with cups. Each table might stand for a certain genre of music. In this way, its possible to interact directly and have a conversation on the spot. I hope Amit soon tests his avatar idea or this a band on a table idea and see either works in a real situation and its his interaction vision. Im looking forward to seeing the result!