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Ethnographic Encounters of the HCI kind in Bioastronautics
Research Plan –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Problem Statement Bioastronautics is a branch of aerospace engineering that specializes in the study and support of life in space. Bioastronautics researchers are interested in the biological, behavioral, medical, and material domains of organisms in spaceflight. Technological advances have increasingly led to a deepened interest and urgency in the domain of space… Read more
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I’m a Storyteller: Modeling Users, and Crafting Analogies for Better Design
I use analogies. I’m constantly on the lookout for the perfect analogy to describe this phenomena or that. For example, how do you describe culture to someone? If you go to the dictionary and recite: the customs, arts, social institutions, and achievements of a particular nation, people, or other social group -(see: Dictionary.com (Links to an external… Read more
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Prototyping w.me in XD
What isn’t a prototype? Even a finished product is a prototype of the next iteration or version. The key takeaway from the Le Bricolage section was how the designers cobbled things together to make a brilliant prototype of an innovative technology that doesn’t actually exist. At the end he also noted that in his view,… Read more
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Ethnographic Archaeology: Iterative Prototyping in UX Research and Design
From the outset of the Stringer et al., paper I was a little put off by the mention that they had developed a form of UCD called, ‘curriculum-focused design’. In so far as curriculum is content, they just conducted user-research along with iterative prototyping. And I think this point is not beyond the authors otherwise… Read more
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Matthew Garvin 