Transforming design ideas under fire

Design space

“we use the term design space to refer to a dynamic conceptual space that bounds possible or probable designs, and which is constructed and explored through design activities.”

Graham Dove, Nicolai Brodersen Hansen, and Kim Halskov. 2016. An Argument For Design Space Reflection. In Proceedings of the 9th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (NordiCHI '16). ACM, New York, NY, USA, , Article 17 , 10 pages. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/2971485.2971528

Hackathon?!

“The word hackathon is a portmanteau of the words hack and marathon, where hack is used in the sense of playful, exploratory programming, not its alternate meaning as a reference to computer crime.” -Wikipedia

AUHack

Research interests

• How are tools and materials used to align and reframe collaboration on different parts of a design space?

• Solo vs group work: sharing a design space, developing individual parts, and bringing them back together

• How did the constraints of time and technology affect the development of the design ideas?

AUHack

• Friday-Sunday: 36 hours of hacking

• Creuna Case: “Imbuing offline shopping experiences with the best from online shopping”

• We won an award… whoops? :)

Approach

• Active participation

• Faithful participation: case selection, effort, use of resources

• Briefed the two non-researcher members (a master’s and bachelor’s student) on our research agenda

“The Wrist Nutritionist”

• “A light-weight bracelet, which helps people with allergies and food intolerances avoid problematic food when shopping

• https://devpost.com/software/wrist-nutritionist

• https://github.com/nbhansen/crocodilebeak

RFID-reader

Food API

Mobile App (frontend) Backend

Data collection• 3 GoPros, Røde Microphone

• Canon EOS7D

• Google docs for notes

• Apple Photos - timestamps + notes

• Timestamps… timestamps everywhere

Data: Video

• Initial ideation meeting

• Status updates

• Group activities (gathering materials)

• Product video

Data: Video

Data: Photos

• States of the physical product

• Field studies

• “Context” photos

Data: Photos

Data: Photos

Data: Photos

Data: Field notes

• Annotation of pictures in Photos

• Google doc personal diary-style notes

Data: Github/code

• Web-based version-control repository

• Has “states” of the different commits of the code

• Comments in the code sometimes reflects problems we have at a given time

Data: Github

Data: Github

Data: code

Theme: ConstraintsSelf-imposedCase selectionFeasibility in 36 hours

Hackathon-specific TimeMLH-hardware labTech Wizards

Design repertoires Domain knowledge (allergies + shopping) Tool knowledge (arduinos, particle.io, sewing kits?!)

Theme: Constraints

Theme: Tools and materials

Theme: Tools and materials

Theme: Group vs solo work