Tag: contemplation
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,…