From Imagination to Experience: The Role of Feasibility Studies in Gathering Requirements for Ambient Intelligent Products

Lucero, Andrés; Lashina, Tatiana; Diederiks, Elmo M. A.

doi:10.1007/978-3-540-30473-9_10

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“…However, after witnessing the bathroom lighting demonstrator during the workshops, there was a sudden shift in their opinion which can be explained by the difference between being asked to imagine what a given system can do and to actually experience it (Lucero 2004). During the workshops the majority of our participants expressed their concerns about the potential complexity of the interaction with the system.…”

Section: User Studymentioning

confidence: 94%

Reducing Complexity of Interaction with Advanced Bathroom Lighting at Home (Reduktion der Interaktionskomplexität bei hochentwickelten Badezimmerbeleuchtungssystemen für die Heimanwendung)

Lucero¹,

Lashina²,

Terken³

2006

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Developments in lighting technology provide a wide range of new opportunities for domestic use which have been demonstrated in several interior design projects. At the same time, available user interfaces providing full control over these systems are too cumbersome to use and are not acceptable for the majority of consumers. To reduce this complexity, we aimed at creating an intuitive user interface control for advanced multi-source lighting systems. Based on participatory design techniques, we invited end-users to help us design and evaluate the new interaction concept. In the final evaluation the user interface design was rated highly with regard to its perceived usefulness and "ease of use". New designs for advanced lighting systems should aim at user-friendly interfaces that make the transition from ordinary light switches to these new interfaces as simple and natural as possible.

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Section: User Studymentioning

confidence: 94%

Reducing Complexity of Interaction with Advanced Bathroom Lighting at Home (Reduktion der Interaktionskomplexität bei hochentwickelten Badezimmerbeleuchtungssystemen für die Heimanwendung)

Lucero¹,

Lashina²,

Terken³

2006

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“…They also mentioned the reciprocal and dialogical exchanges that went beyond the Probing stages of the research; where Probe materials were used not only to promote refections on and articulations of anxieties and aspirations for the future (as noted by Gaver [32]), but to scafold future action among groups "from personal attitudes to long-term collaboration" [68, p.77]. This is not to be critical of our participants that set out to not be participatory; indeed, these participants often articulated a critical stance against such work or challenged the value of such work in their specifc context in order to avoid 'the tyranny' of participation [19] where Probes could turn into an obligation [60]. Rather, we highlight here the increasingly blurred boundaries of HCI work grounded in the artist-designer tradition, and that the dichotomy posed by Gaver [32] around the role of the designer as expert or servant is increasingly less clear.…”

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How Design Researchers Interpret Probes

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Vines

2021

Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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Since entering the HCI lexicon in the 1990s, Probes have been interpreted and used in divergent ways as a designerly approach to research. While originally positioned as a critique of dominant user-research methods, literature on Probes rarely refects on such critical dimensions nor explicitly articulates the intents of using Probes as research artifacts. We conducted interviews with 12 design researchers who have worked with Probes within diverse Research through Design projects, exploring direct accounts of how and why Probes are used in practice. Our interviews brought to the fore the critical concerns behind Probe practices in relation to the language of Probing, relationships with participants, and motivations to challenge normative practices. While the pluralistic interpretations of Probes ofered by our participants brings challenges, we discuss how making visible the critical motivations of our research opens up new ways of practicing and disseminating Probes.

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“…We felt there no longer was a need to focus on the 'sharing' situations in a multi-user setting as we were trying to find the perfect solution to solve social interaction. Couples told us the system should not sort the problem for them and that the solution would depend on the circumstances of the encounter (activity, mood, duration, level of disruption) [7].…”

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How probes inform and influence the design process

Lucero

Lashina

Diederiks

et al. 2007

Proceedings of the 2007 Conference on Designing Pleasurable Products and Interfaces

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Design and research practitioners have applied probes in their design processes to find new ways of understanding user experience, allowing them to obtain a better understanding of their users and to inspire their designs. Usually in design practice and research, project leaders and managers expect an ultimate solution emerging as a result of probing. However, in most cases such a direct connection is not evident as probes inform and influence the design process in many different ways. We provide illustrative examples of these ways based on a study related to bathroom use for a lighting system. We present a generalization of our findings on how probes can help inform other design processes.

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From Imagination to Experience: The Role of Feasibility Studies in Gathering Requirements for Ambient Intelligent Products

Cited by 3 publications

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Reducing Complexity of Interaction with Advanced Bathroom Lighting at Home (Reduktion der Interaktionskomplexität bei hochentwickelten Badezimmerbeleuchtungssystemen für die Heimanwendung)

Reducing Complexity of Interaction with Advanced Bathroom Lighting at Home (Reduktion der Interaktionskomplexität bei hochentwickelten Badezimmerbeleuchtungssystemen für die Heimanwendung)

How Design Researchers Interpret Probes

How probes inform and influence the design process

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