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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"cultural probes"”.
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Technology on the Trail: Using Cultural Probes to Understand Hikers
… attitudes towards technology. For this reason, cultural probes stood out as a useful method for understanding hikers and inspiring future directions for Technology on the Trail. The heart of the matter is indeed a question of culture, so probes are a logical choice for teasing out a variety of …
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A nation's visual language: nation branding and the visual identity of contemporary Malaysia
… nations, and takes the multiracial, multicultural state of Malaysia as the principal object of study. Contemporary Malaysian society and culture are reviewed in the context of present views of globalization and postcolonialism, and the phenomenon of ‘glocalization’ emerges as an important …
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Prosthetic Realities, Prosthetic Futures: Challenging the status quo of external breast prosthesis design
… methodology emerged. Insights from interviews, cultural probes, co-design activities and solo practice were combined to inform the making of speculative prosthesis prototypes that could advance the discourse of EBP. The aesthetics of prosthetics is a nascent research field, with some literature …
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Co-Designing with and for Milk Donors
… with a variety of co-design methods, comparing Cultural Probes, interviews, participant observation, high- and low-fidelity prototyping, and cognitive walkthroughs.
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Designing an enhanced web user experience: the use of "emotional probes" as a user-centred methodology for designing emotionally-engaged web interaction.
… methodological approach, called "Emotional Probes" (EPs), combines ethnographic surveys with the Cultural Probes (CPs) approach. The EPs method is applied to investigate the ongoing phenomenon of Web communication, for the impact of emotional factors on users has received insufficient …
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Participatory Action Research for Emotionally Meaningful Stories
… to develop and explore PAR methods within three culturally different fishing communities located in India, Portugal and the UK in order to generate emotionally meaningful stories. The work was conducted as part of the practice-led TOTeM research project and aspires to be associated with such …
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Supporting positive interactions within dementia relationships of care
… interviews, observation, field-notes, and cultural probes and explored using narrative analysis. Three themes are identified in the narrative analysis: navigating privacy and place in contexts; reaching out of the home and in to the community; and old selves, new selves, future selves – …
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A critical artefact methodology : using provocative conceptual designs to foster human-centred innovation.
… to Ehn and Kyng's mock-ups (1991) and Gaver's cultural probes (1999) exemplars, I show that critical artefacts do not fit the description of `prototypes' (suggestive of design direction or destination) and that my critical artefact methodology depends upon a progression from presenting …
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On PlaceMark: Collaborative Authoring, Place, and Identity
… writing activity. This system is examined as a cultural probe, investigating how new media students engage in collaborative writing and how they construct place. Findings include that students engage in the activity as if in parallel play (influencing one another implicitly rather than …
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Youth in Lebanon: Using collaborative and interdisciplinary communication design methods to improve social integration in post-conflict societies
… of a politically, religiously, geographically, culturally and linguistically segregated post-conflict generation. The research adopts an innovative, interdisciplinary(1.) and collaborative(2.) approach, to explore the contribution of communication design methods towards social integration …