UCD werkcollege blok 1 week 4

Hogeschool van Amsterdam Interactieve Media

UCD werkcollege blok 1 week 4


Agenda

Huisregels Werkcollege assignment explanation

Assignment (40 minutes)

Evaluation

Homework


Huisregels in order of (my) preference

1. Make mistakes

2. Join in

3. Have fun

4. If in doubt ask

5. Please be on time

6. GSM off / no SMS / MSN

7. If people are talking / presenting (other students or me) lap-top closed


Werkcollege assignment

1. Form into pairs

2. Go out and observe how people interact with machines (e.g. pinautomaat, NS-ticketautomaat, chipknip, HvA facilitycard oplader, Parking meter, kassa, etc.) What works well for them? What doesn’t work (so well)? What do you think needs to be improved?

3. Watch your partner try use their mobile phone What works well for them? What doesn’t work (so well)? Ask them what they use their phone for Ask them what they like / dislike using their phone What do you think needs to be improved on the phone?

4. Makes notes on their answers and then let them do the same exercise with you using your phone

5. Come back to the lokaal within 40 minutes ready to discuss your findings


Homework

1. Go to three different places and watch different people using their mobile phones

2. Pick one person at each location and try to imagine what they are like. Think about: What type of person are they? What about their family What is their job? Why are they at the place you have seen them? Why are they using their phone? Why do the have a phone and how do they use it? What do they like about their phone and what do they not like?(Note: do not ask them any questions - use your imagination, but be realistic)

3. Make notes in your dummy

4. Choose one of the three ‘proef-personae’ you have created and type your description of them on to no more than 1 side of A4 paper. 1. Include a photograph on the sheet, but not a photograph of the person you actually

observed. Try to find a photo on Google or Flickr or even Hyves, you think fits the description you have written

5. Print out the A4 (B&W is fine) and bring it to next week’s werkcollege

UCD werkcollege blok 1 week 4

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