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Workshopping myself out of it…

Posted by: gcbb on: April 29, 2008

Oh happy monday! We have started this week with a lecture by creative design consultancy Schulze& Webb. As stated on ther web-site, they are “working hands-on with companies to research and develop their technologies and strategy, primarily by finding opportunities in networks and physical things.” Very interesting projects! Check out their Availabot (which is a figure that represents on of your friends on messenger), or if you are as enthustiastic about radio as me, the Olinda digital radio that lets you share your listening with your friends (that is a dedicated switch lets you tune in to whatever your best friend is listening to). You will see their insight to engaging interactions.

Fortunately, they are also holding a workshop for us these three days, to help us better define what the projects are about.

Sketching out one idea that came up: Using the bike camera to raport bad driving. The user would earn money on reporting traffic offenders, documented with camera. I did not pursue the idea much further…

Our first task was to make a product statement for our project. And after several iterations and some well focused tutoring I have decided to explore my project as a game. So for the moment, my statement sounds something like this :

 

  • myView is a game that lets you compete with your friends, collecting images around the city, using a bicycle with a memory.

 

Further we were asked to describe the experience hooks that are found in the products. These are the moments that the user will remember and tell stories about. Mine are:

 

  • Discovering the game
  • Looking for your motive
  • Choosing when to take a picture
  • Taking a picture
  • Finding your picture
  • Receiving rapports on your activity
This has been a really fruitful day, and helped me revise my project.
Further work includes evidencing the concept and presenting it in a real, graspable and saleable way.

 

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I am a master student at the Oslo school of Architecture & Design in Norway. My studies are in industrial design, focused on interaction design and tangible interactions. This blog follows a studio course called "Touch - new local interfaces" that researches tangible interaction and networked objects specially through RFID technology. My projects investigates interactions in the public domain, and is working against services around bike-sharing systems. Feel free to comment! Gunnar Bothner-By

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