Task
Your task is to create a prototype for an app, an artefact, or a service, that is related to activity tracking or intercultural design. The prototype doesn’t have to be fully functional – it can be partially simulated. However, you must be able to show how it would work once it is fully implemented.
Your app, artefact, or service should be one of the following things:
- an exploration of data or a data set that shows who tracks which activities, or who is included or excluded by activity tracking, or which cultures are addressed
- an interactive installation that critically explores aspects of activity tracking or culture or cultural differences
- a way for somebody to track something about themselves (food, sleep, wellbeing, gym sessions, …) or to show an aspect of their cultural background
- a hack of an existing app, artefact, or service that personalises it or adapts it to a different culture.
Look at the previous lectures and the literature we discussed for inspiration.
What to choose?
- Something that interests you
- Something that your group has the skills to make
- Something that your group has the skills to research
You may not reuse a technology probe that you develop for Histories and Futures, and you may not reuse a data set that you analyse for Data Science for Design. I will check with Bettina NISSEN and Dave Murray-Rust to ensure that you don’t do this.
How to Do It
The steps are outlined on the main Group Work page. The first step is to answer the following questions:
- What will you make?
- For whom will you make it?
- How do you plan to make it?
Your answers to these questions will change as your case study develops. I want you to write down the initial answer to these questions as your summary (see the Course Handbook – your first, pass/fail group assignment) and submit it using LEARN. Try to answer each question in one or two sentences. You can write more, but you don’t have to, as long as you answer each question.
Help with your Work
From now on, the tutorials will be times when I am around to answer your questions and help you with your project. I can mainly help you with user testing, user research, and task design. Mark Kobine can help with making, and Mohammed Tahaei can help with programming. And of course, your Year 2 mentors will meet with you every week to help you and guide you! However, you will need to spend a lot of time working on your in addition to the tutorials.