Halloran, John, Hornecker, Eva, Fitzpatrick, Geraldine, Weal, Mark J., Millard, David E., Michaelides, Danius T., Cruickshank, Don and Roure, David De (2006) Unfolding understandings: co-designing UbiComp In Situ, over time. In: Carroll, John M., Bodker, Susanne and Coughlin, Julie (eds.) Proceedings of DIS06: Designing Interactive Systems: Processes, Practices, Methods, & Techniques. ACM Press, University Park, PA, USA, pp. 109-118. ISBN 1595933670

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Abstract

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.

Item Type:	Book Section
Additional Information:	The publisher's version is located at the official url.
Keywords:	In-situ methods, co-design, public spaces, time, tour guides, ubiquitous computing, user experience
Schools and Departments:	School of Engineering and Informatics > Informatics
Subjects:	Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA0075 Electronic computers. Computer science
Depositing User:	Chris Keene
Date Deposited:	15 Feb 2008
Last Modified:	30 Nov 2012 16:51
URI:	http://srodev.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/1356
Google Scholar:	13 Citations

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