ReEvaluation
Week 8, Interaction Design Methods
When you create a product, you evaluate your first prototype. Does the prototype meet your goals? If not, new goals must be set.
In Sengers and Gavers text are 6 different interpretations of a design which can lead to reevaluation of a product. Some of them are found in our project of interaction design process module.
„Designs can clearly specify usability, while leaving interpretation of use open.“ [1]
In our Installation there are tetrahedron which have the affordance to connect them together due the form and the magnets which are visible. The modules are on a metal plate, which enhances the affordance. The final form of the sculpture is open.
„Designs can gradually unfold new opportunities for interpretation over the course of interaction.“ [1]
In the beginning the user starts to build a sculpture with the tetrahedrons. First it’s just a sculpture, but then the user realizes that on a screen the colors of the sculpture are mirrored. It unfolds new opportunities for interpretation.
In our Interaction Design Process Project we had many goals we wanted to achieve. Most of them were succesful, but a few we couldn’t achieve. We had some Technical issues like the color detection of the camera which worked fine, but not as we imagined. Another Issue was our target group, which changed over time slightly. In the end our final prototype wasn’t just for people in a psychiatry. It worked as an installation an exhibition as well.
Sonjoi Nielsen, 29.04.2019
Interaction Design, Zurich University of Arts
Sources:
[1] Phoebe Sengers and Bill Gaver (2006)
Staying Open to Interpretation: Engaging Multiple Meanings in Design and Evaluation
Cornell Information Science and Science & Technology Studies Ithaca
Goldsmiths College University of London
[2] Farbaeder (2019)
A poetic visualisation with augmented coloured blocks
Zurich University of Arts
farbaeder.com
