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Call for Participants: Workshop study
Hey there! Are you an international student, a migrant, or do you keep in contact with loved ones living in a different country? As part of my PhD research project, I’m conducting a creative workshop study to collaboratively map the current trends in how families and partners inhabit shared virtual spaces together. The workshop will…
Tangling the web: an upcoming post series (?)
Hey all! Amari here. I’ll be starting a post series about web design traits and trends that have become inescapable across the internet, and whether we can internet without them—as users, developers, and designers. Petri Dish – a weird web experience thing I made. So, I’m a web developer who’s had brief stints in graphic…
Making an app feel like a place: real-time, persistence, pictures and words
The first room in Experiment 2. I’ve always been fascinated with apps that convey a sense of things happening “in the same place.” From Minecraft servers to shared Google documents, many virtual platforms seem to foster a sense of shared geography by virtue of their design. Ever since the research survey, I feel like I’m…
Probing into online probes
What are Cultural Probes? Invented in 1999 by Gaver, Dunn and Pacenti, cultural probes are a category of research instruments, usually consisting of (i) a package of “craft-worthy” materials and tools (e.g. stickers, sticky notes, maps, cameras, voice recorders); and (ii) a collection of prompts Participants respond to the prompts by creating with, or remixing,…
What’s next? A creative probe? A workshop?
The question of what I’ll be doing for my creative phase has been one that has haunted me since I began my PhD. At long last, it’s time for me to figure out the answer to that question. The supervisors made an excellent point that what I’m seeking to do, effectively, is not to solve…
Research findings: How are people creating a sense of togetherness online?
The everyday inventiveness of translocal relationship maintenance I’m excited to share some early insights from our latest study. Some of you may remember it from when it was distributed: a survey about how people who sustain relationships online create a sense of being in the same place, even at a distance. Even now, online platforms…