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Creating a sense of anticipation

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my practice

• We have been encouraged to take a strata-like or concentric / spiral approach to our practice

• But running through these layers are, for me, recurrent themes and it is these that I shall talk about

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my caveat

• Teaching and research are not separate activities

• And are not informed by separate philosophies or methods

• Both are expressions of an underlying conviction / belief / explanatory account

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An exercise in antonyms

• Atheoretic• Concrete• Pragmatic• Phronesis • Coping

• Theoretical• Formal• Principled• Context / context-

free• Reflective

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• But rather than a linear treatment of these themes I will try to consider them ready-to-hand rather than present-at-hand

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Interaction design

• Where to start– The assessment

• What to teach– The necessary skills to complete the

assessment

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• Instructional design– Practical (doing not reflecting)– Iterative (mid-point evaluation)– Relevant (not TA or anything like it)– Appealing(fashionable, timely, cool)

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the assessment

• You are required to design and evaluate a mini-application which might be suitable to run on an Apple iPhone.

• Your application must be designed for the opposite sex. If you are a woman you must design the application for men specifically. If you are a man you must design the application for women specifically.

• Design choices must be justified – that is, you must provide a rationale for your choices.

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Effects of feedback on HCI performance

• Part 1 - lo-fi prototype, scenario, persona & design rationale

• 15 minutes f/b & questions

• Part 2 - ‘higher’-fi prototype, response to f/b & evaluation

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for women

• Astrological / horoscopes

• Shopping guides• Fashion related• Fitness / health /

dietary advice / calorie counter

• Womens’ magazines• Menstruation calendar,

contraceptive pill reminder

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for men

• Beer guides• Sports guides• A simple cook

book

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Movies

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• No theory

• No reflection

• No context

• No methodologies

• Instead - creative engagement where evaluation means answering the question “does it work?”