Making Sense of a place

Playing with multimodal design

Place making

Sense making

What are you wanting to say?

What do the users want to know?

Impairments

Inclusion

What can we do?

Understand the place

Sense the place

Tools of trade

Cameras

Audio recording

Your body

Touch

Smell

Mapping the place

Understand the total environment

Walk the place

What do you get?

Don't be trapped by the visual but look

deeper

What do you do with all this research?

Go back to what people want to know and what they can

sense

Decide on overall structure

Dump stuff

Simplify it

Build it

Test it

Learn need for context

Importance of Priming

Need for a Key