This week we collected our cultural probes from participants. The image of the left summarizes all of our findings. The cultural probes were a helpful way for us to understand and learn about our audience, and the attitudes they had regarding safety.
Cultural probes also allow us to introduce ourselves to our users/research subjects. When it comes to our project in particular, we wanted to ask ourselves...what do we want our users to know about us/our project/purpose? Without it being too straight-forward and obvious?
We learned all too quickly that this was going to be hard to keep ambiguous, but once we started brainstorming we found that there were many opportunities to get creative with this. We originally wanted to do a journal entry type of concept, but this seemed all too linear. We then decided on an activity book of some sort. Here is what we came up with: A type of "word mash" that has the person fill in what immediately comes to mind when they see each particular word or phrase. A deserted island page that allows the person to draw three things that they would need in the situation that they are on this island without anything with them. This will allow us to see what items people just can't live without or items that they just think will help them survive. A map that includes various locations that would commonly be found in day to day situations. The person is then given a set of three different colored stickers, green meaning the area is safe, yellow meaning the area is moderately safe, and red meaning the area is dangerous. They are to place these stickers on all of the locations within the map. We also wanted to find out where people are throughout the day or where they may be in case of an emergency. We added something a little more visual instead of just asking them where they are in the day and for how long. |
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January 2016
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