Unfolding understandings: co-designing UbiComp In Situ, over time.

Journal article

A key challenge in co-designing UbiComp is that users may have limited understanding or experience of these technologies. While the value of situated co-design activities for promoting understanding is known, the role of time is less well researched. Here we describe and reflect on a range of co-design activities carried out with the curators of an historic English manor house to create novel visitor tours. We show how an ensemble of situated co-design activities over time led to the unfolding of user understanding around issues of content, technology and user experience, in turn leading to a progressive re-imagining of practice. This points to the importance of time and variety of in-situ activities to help people engage as co-designers in creating novel UbiComp-enabled experiences. Copyright 2006 ACM.

Authors: Halloran, J; Hornecker, E; Fitzpatrick, G; Weal, M; Millard, D

• Publisher: ACM
• Journal: Conference on Designing Interactive Systems
• Volume: 2006
• Pages: 109-118
• Publication date: 2006-01-01
• DOI: 10.1145/1142405.1142423
• Language: English
• Keywords: Public spaces; Ubiquitous computing; In-situ methods; Co-design; Tour guides; User experience; Time