To learn how develop a conviction that you are working on the right problem.
New Groups
(Bold is anchor person)
Marcel, Grace, Karen
Thanh, Andrew, Garrett
Hiroe, Fiel, Viet
Sarah, Julie, Maria
Marianne, Michael, Warren
Steven, Patrick, Cameron
Matthew, Chris, Sabel
Assignment
If you are doing "Smart Cookbook" you are to gather materials to see how you can do that without making everyone who likes cooking slit their wrists because cooking now involves a computer. If a smart cookbook won't work, what will?
Photos
Take 100 pictures of at least 4 people while they are cooking.
Pick 25 that are strongly illuminating/provocative/evocative
They challenge assumptions about the Smart Cookbook
They show a user interaction with data in an unexpected way
They show task complexity or nuance
Print them out and bring them into class
Interview
Interview 2 different people you don't know about how they cook and how they use recipes and ingredients.
Record the audio
Take notes, quotes and ideas from the audio
Bring them to class
If you are doing "Never Eat Alone" you are to gather materials to see how you can pull that off without making the creepiest most annoying social buzz kill app in history.
Take 100 pictures of people eating alone in at least 4 locations
Pick 25 that are strongly illuminating/provocative/evocative
They challenge assumptions about what "eating alone" means
They show people "eating alone" in unexpected ways
They show people reacting to the fact that they are alone
Print them and bring them into class
Take 100 pictures of people eating in groups in at least 4 locations
Pick 25 that are strongly illuminating/provocative/evocative
They challenge assumptions about what is the best social environment to eat lunch in
They show people eating in groups in unexpected ways or in unexpected sizes
They show the dynamics of groups
Print them out and bring them into class
Interview
Interview 2 different people while they are at an eating establishment that you don't know about how they decided where to eat and with who and what kind of tech support they used or could have used.
Record the audio
Take notes, quotes and ideas from the audio
Bring them to class
If you are doing the "Expiration Date" manager you are to gather materials to see how you can help people not waste food without making the most obsessive compulsive roommate even more obsessive compulsive
Take 100 pictures of 10 different refrigerators in different settings
Pick 25 that are strongly illuminating/provocative/evocative
They challenge your assumptions about what is put in refrigerators
They show unexpected uses of refrigerators
They show how people are handling food management already
Print them and bring them into class
Take 50 pictures of expiration date labels on food in a grocery store
Pick 10 that are strongly illuminating/provocative/evocative
They challenge your assumptions about when food expires
They demonstrate complexity of understanding what expiration means
They show the ease or difficult of determining expiration
Print them and bring them into class
Fast Interview
Ask 30 people you know about what is in their fridge right now and if it is going to go bad and when.
Record their response. LISTEN deeply to what they are saying explicitly and implicitly.
Takes notes, quotes and ideas from the audio
Bring them to class
Grading
Did you do the assignment?
Can you express why your data is strongly illuminating/provocative/evocative?
Is your data strongly illuminating/provocative/evocative