Cultural probes and the value of uncertainty

When reason is away, smiles will play. Paul Eluard and Benjamin Péret

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The author discusses some of the characteristics of Roy Schafer's contributions to psychoanalysis that he finds most valuable, such as his openness to uncertainty, his anti-reductive view of analytic constructions, his unique formulation of the…

This paper reports on the challenges faced during the design and deployment of educationally-focused cultural probes with children. The aim of the project was to use cultural probes to discover insights into children's interests and ideas within an…

Traditional emphasis in the design of communications was in the production of written text, drawing, photos, sound, and multimedia. Web 2.0, gives another dimension. Design of communications is not only design of images, text and movies; it is also…

Intimacy is a crucial element of domestic life that has received insufficient attention from Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) researchers despite their rapidly growing interest in the design of interactive technologies for domestic use. Intimate…

Introducing the basic assumptions of constructivism as a philosophical position, this paper illustrates how Jung's psychology-especially complex, archetype and transcendent function-is consonant with constructivism. Further, the paper explores some…

The cultural probe approach is becoming a valuable observational method in social contexts. Based on cultural probe work on intergenerational play, this paper proposes a method for moving forward from these results towards a requirements analysis,…

The `Cultural probes' method as introduced by Gaver et al (1999) has been utilized within the field of designing with families (Westerlund et al 2001, Mattelmaki, T. & Battarbee, K. 2002) but more work is needed in this area to further explore the…

Cultural probes are a relatively new method of data collection which have been used extensively in design-based research since their initial inception by Gaver, Dunne, and Pacenti in 1999. Based on notions of uncertainty, play, exploration and…