Paper Info
Title
Transfer scenarios: grounding innovation with marginal practices
Abstract
Transfer scenarios is a method developed to support the design of innovative interactive technology. Such a method should help the designer to come up with inventive ideas, and at the same time provide grounding in real human needs. In transfer scenarios, we use marginal practices to encourage a changed mindset throughout the design process. A marginal practice consists of individuals who share an activity that they find meaningful. We regard these individuals not as end-users, but as valuable input in the design process. We applied this method when designing novel applications for autonomous embodied agents, e.g. robots. Owners of unusual pets, such as snakes and spiders, were interviewed - not with the intention to design robot pets, but to determine underlying needs and interests of their practice. The results were then used to design a set of applications for more general users, including a dynamic living-room wall and a set of communicating hobby robots.
Year
DOI
Venue
2007
10.1145/1240624.1240738
CHI
Keywords
Field
DocType
inventive idea,changed mindset,hobby robot,transfer scenario,marginal practice,novel application,design process,dynamic living-room wall,general user,innovative interactive technology,design method,embodied agent,design methods
Hobby,Mindset,Computer science,Knowledge management,Design methods,Embodied cognition,Fundamental human needs,Ground,Human–computer interaction,Engineering design process,Robot
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
39
2.30
21
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Sara Ljungblad124722.27
Lars Erik Holmquist21369210.85