Title
On the move with a magic thing: role playing in concept design of mobile services and devices
Abstract
Designing concepts for new mobile services and devices, poses several challenges to the design. We consider user participation as a way to address part of the challenges. We show how our effort relates to current and past research. In particular, PD (Participatory Design) has inspired us in developing two participatory techniques. The two techniques are organized around situations either staged or real where users and designers can envision and enact future scenarios: a role-playing game with toys, and SPES (Situated and Participative Enactment of Scenarios). They were developed in an industry-funded project that investigates services for the nomadic Internet user of the future. We then discuss how the techniques help in facing the design challenges.
Year
DOI
Venue
2000
10.1145/347642.347715
Symposium on Designing Interactive Systems
Keywords
Field
DocType
new mobile service,participative enactment,magic thing,industry-funded project,design challenge,nomadic internet user,participatory design,future scenario,concept design,user participation,participatory technique,past research,acting out,mobility,role playing,games for design
Situated,Participatory design,Human–computer interaction,Engineering,Citizen journalism,Magic (paranormal),Multimedia,Role playing,The Internet
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
1-58113-219-0
67
7.74
References 
Authors
17
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Giulio Iacucci122024.45
Kari Kuutti264280.18
Mervi Ranta39812.43