Unfolding understandings: co-designing UbiComp <i>In Situ</i>, over time Export

@inproceedings{citeulike:808687, abstract = {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.}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, author = {Halloran, John and Hornecker, Eva and Fitzpatrick, Geraldine and Weal, Mark and Millard, David and Michaelides, Danius and Cruickshank, Don and De Roure, David}, booktitle = {DIS '06: Proceedings of the 6th ACM conference on Designing Interactive systems}, citeulike-article-id = {808687}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1142423}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1142405.1142423}, doi = {10.1145/1142405.1142423}, isbn = {1595933670}, keywords = {co-design, methods, museums, ubicomp, user\_experience}, pages = {109--118}, posted-at = {2006-08-20 17:48:51}, priority = {5}, publisher = {ACM Press}, title = {Unfolding understandings: co-designing UbiComp <i>In Situ</i>, over time}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1142405.1142423}, year = {2006} }

TY - CONF ID - citeulike:808687 L3 - citeulike-article-id:808687 N2 - 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. SN - 1595933670 AD - New York, NY, USA EP - 118 TI - Unfolding understandings: co-designing UbiComp <i>In Situ</i>, over time PB - ACM Press T2 - DIS '06: Proceedings of the 6th ACM conference on Designing Interactive systems SP - 109 KW - co-design KW - methods KW - museums KW - ubicomp KW - user_experience AU - Halloran, John AU - Hornecker, Eva AU - Fitzpatrick, Geraldine AU - Weal, Mark AU - Millard, David AU - Michaelides, Danius AU - Cruickshank, Don AU - De Roure, David PY - 2006/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1142405.1142423 ER -