Malmö University - Interaction Design Master - Physical Computing Brief 2010-2011

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Project Brief Interaction Design Master 2010

Theme Project: Physical Computing Project introduction: November 22, 2010

Tutors/Examiners: Amanda Bergknut, AB (coordinator),[email protected]

Tony Olsson (Arduino), TO,[email protected]

Mette Agger Eriksen, MAE,[email protected]

Per-Anders Hillgren, PAE,[email protected]

End of Project: January 28, 2011

Introduction

The theme aims to explore how we can design digital artifacts to map and adapt

to a more human behavior and body language.

You will be investigating new inputs and interfaces that take into account how

people are used to interact with the world /communicate and express. You will

design concepts that make use of the physical body and senses by exploring i.e.

tactile and movement based interfaces beyond the keyboard, screen and mouse.

You will also investigate how to make digital content and output graspable and

understandable by giving it a physical shape.

You will be introduced to Physical prototyping, Experience prototyping, Tangible

interaction, Body storming, Wearables and Embodiment. You will prototype usingArduino as well as physical materials and in doing so broaden user experience

beyond the keyboard, screen and mouse.

In the last part of the project, in relation to a specific site either in Malm or

Copenhagen, you will partly work with these views and practices. This is in a 3-

week cross-institutional project with students from The Danish Technical

University (DTU) and the Architecture School in Copenhagen (KARCH). This part is

mainly organized by a Danish organization Workshopscenen.

Learning objectives

The purpose of the theme Physical Computing is to explore new ways to interact

with digital products and personal technologies by designing innovativeinteractive solutions that go beyond the traditional desktop metaphor and

which are designed for specific use situations and locations/physical contexts.

Deliverables

The deliverables during the theme is different for the Arduino briefs and the

Workshopsscenen project. See each section for details.

Equipment

Students will be expected to budget 400 SEK each of their own funds for Arduino

start up kit. The instructors will hand out a list of necessary equipment that all

students need to have.

Groups

You work in pairs during the Arduino briefs. You select yourselves whom you

work with. You work in new groups during the Workshopsscenen-project that

starts January 10. These groups will be together with students from KARCH andDTU in Denmark.

Arduino Brief #1 - Making old cardboard into toys

22-Nov-10 912 - Introduction to the theme PhysicalComputing and to Arduino brief #1 (AB,

TO)

23-Nov-10 916 - Arduino lab (TO)24-Nov-10 912 - Group Work

13-16 Erling Bjrgvinsson will informabout the next theme project 4 on Cross-

social media (See more details on Its

Learning)25-Nov-10 916 Tutoring on the Arduino project

(TO)

26-Nov-10 13-16 - Presentation Arduino brief #1 (AB,TO)
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Arduino brief #1 consists in the creation of an electronic toy out of a recycled

cardboard box for whatever food-product you may have in the house. You can

take milk cartons, figs from Morocco, cereal packages etc.

Requirements: The toy will include analog and/or digital inputs and will only have LEDs

as outputs.

The target group is adults. The toy will be single player, single user.

Deliverables for Arduino brief #1

The result should fit in a box of max 20x20x20cm, include a draft of an

instructions manual and be documented with a video you will have to upload to

www.ixdmalmo.se

Instructions manual for how to use the toy in max one A4 using bothsides (PDF)

Instructions manual for how to Do It Yourself, DIY, out of cardboard andadding the components (PDF)

3 High-Res quality pictures (TIFF, 300dpi) Video file documenting the toy

Arduino Brief #2 - Augment Board Games

29-Nov-10 912 - Intro to Arduino brief #2 (TO)30-Nov-10 916 - Arduino lab (TO)01-Dec-10 916 - Group Work02-Dec-10 916 Tutoring on the Arduino project

(TO)

03-Dec-10 13-16 - Presentation Arduino brief #2 (AB,TO)

Arduino brief #2 requests from you to rescue an existing board game. You should

look into a board game like Monopoly, Hotel, Cluedo etc. whatever game as far

as it includes a board. Your task for this week will not be to concentrate in making

a toy, but a game. Given the board, you should develop completely new game

goals where a technical gadget of your invention should play a crucial role.

Requirements:

The game will include analog and/or digital inputs and will have LEDs ,sound devices and/or LCDs as outputs.

The target group is adults. The game will be single/multi-player, single/multi-user.


The result should be a box, including the board, the game pieces, yourtechnical game-tool, and a draft of an instructions manual. It should be

documented with a video you will have to upload to www.ixdmalmo.se

Instructions manual for how to play the game in max one A4 using bothsides (PDF)

The chosen game board 3 High-Res quality pictures (TIFF/Jpeg, 300dpi), + 1 picture of the board

with the pieces + 1 picture of the box with everything packed inside + 1

picture of the box open showing the content Video file documenting the game

Arduino Brief #3 - Design A Time Machine

06-Dec-10 912 - Intro to Arduino brief #3 ( TO) 13-15 - Susan Kozel Professor of New

Media, room C310 (the lecture is

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kozel-professor-of-new-media/

07-Dec-10 916 - Arduino lab (TO)08-Dec-10 916 - Group Work09-Dec-10 916 Tutoring on the Arduino project

(TO)

10-Dec-10 916 - Group Work (TO)13-Dec-10 912 - David Cuartielles Open lecture

"Light, Sound, Public space & Arduino"

room C123
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13-15 Group Work14-Dec-10 916 Tutoring on the Arduino project

(TO)

15-Dec-10 916 - Group Work16-Dec-10 916 Tutoring on the Arduino project

(TO)

17-Dec-10 13-16 - Presentation Arduino brief #3 (AB,TO)

Arduino brief #3 is to create a game looking into time, history, and life.

Everything can be accounted in time: how many hours you sleep, how often you

get a phone-call, when you got your first boyfriend etc.

Requirements:

You have to stick to the idea of a game and place it within the context oftime. The brief is open ended when it comes to the form of it. The solution has to have the word "time" in the title and be interactive. Think about time in a creative way, e.g. do not just make a backwards

counter for the players to answer some kind of questions or solve a task.

The target group is adults.


Instructions manual for how to play/use in max one A4 using both sides(PDF)

3 High-Res quality pictures (TIFF, 300dpi), + 1 picture of the board withthe pieces + 1 picture of the box with everything packed inside + 1

picture of the box open showing the content

Box for the object Video file documenting your solution and upload it to www.ixdmalmo.se

Presentation of Arduino brief #3

The presentation will give everyone a chance to play with the toysbefore the final critique. The evaluation wi ll be shared between students

and teachers. Every group will have to play at least the games from four

others and give on-the-spot critique on different aspects

We will vote the best game, the best toy, and the best overall design.We will run a 60 minutes simultaneous test of the toys and games. More

details on this later.

Individual reflective 4 page short paper Deadline 7 January 2011

Writing and submitting a paper to a conference is one way of sharing research

insights this gives you a chance to experience such a publication process. You

write a 4 page conference short paper where you reflect on practices of

interaction design when working with physical computing. The paper should use

one or more of your Arduino projects, as well as other related examples, in order

to reflect on and with these. Your short paper must follow the standard ACM

format, see the word template ACM format.doc on its learning .

The deadline on 7. January is at 18:00 and your paper should beuploadedto its

learning.Amanda will give you a short individual feedback to assist you in improving your

paper.

Your paper should be written to be submitted to the Student Interaction Design

Conference 2011, SIDeR11, happening in Copenhagen in April 2011. Deadline for

submission to the conference is 18 February 2011. We encourage you to submit

your paper. See its learning for more info on SIDer11.

If you want to submit you short paper to another conference that you feel is

more suitable e.g. with regards to physical computing, then please let us know.

Note that the deadline should preferably be beginning of 2011.

20/12 - 7/1 Individual Short-paper

07-Jan-

2011

Deadline - Individual short-paper

10-28 Jan Intense Multidisciplinary Innovation and Design

In this project you will collaborate with students from the Technical University of

Denmark (DTU) and The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts,School of
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Architecture (KARCH). The main organizer of the project i s the Danish

organization Workshopscenen, and Mette and Per-Anders will be engaged in this

part of the Physical Computing Theme.

In this project, in the cross-institutional teams, you will be designing for a specific

location either in Malm or Copenhagen. The project is a chance to exploreArduino in a real world context.

More details on the project will follow before the Christmas break. Below is an

overall current schedule. Please note that the project runs ful l time:

10-14 Jan: Analysis, Facts and Process

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

Introduction

to the project.

Group work Malm - Guided

tour, local

stakeholders.

Lecture:

Decoding the

space.

Group work

Group work Copenhagen

- Guided

tour, localstakeholder.

Lecture:

Involving users

Group work Mid Way

Critique

17-21 Jan: Strategy and Design

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

Group work Group work Group work Group work Group work

Lecture:

Entrepreneurship

in the creative

disciplines

Group work

Mid Way

Critique

Group work

Lecture:

Guest

Lecturer

24-28 Jan: Communication and PresentationMonday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

Group work Group work Group work

Group work

Reflection

Mid Way

Critique

DEADLINE

Presentation to

stakeholders.

Reflection


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Recommended readings

O'Sullivan, Dan & Igoe, Tom (2004) Physical Computing: Sensing and Controlling

the Physical World with Computers. Course Technology

Igoe, Tom (2007) Making Things Talk: Practical Methods for Connecting PhysicalObjects. Pragma

Noble, Joshua (2009) Programming Interactivity: A Designer's Guide to

Processing, Arduino, and openFrameworks. Pragma

Massimo Banzi (2008) Getting Started with Arduino.OReilley Media Inc.

Olsson, Tony, Gaetano, David, Odhner, Jonas and Wiklund, Samson. (2008) Open

softwear. Download on http://softwear.cc/

Dunne, Anthont & Raby Fiona (2001) Design Noir: The Secret Life of Electronic

Objects

Dourish, Paul What we talk about when we talk about contextPers Ubiquit

Comput (2004) 8: 1930 - Download on itslearning

Dourish, Paul Seeking a Foundation for Context-Aware Computing - Download on

itslearning

Bjrgvinsson, E. Ehn, P. Hillgren, P-A. Participatory design and democratizing

innovation in Proceedings of Participatory Design Conference, Sydney, Australia.

2010

Jegou, F. Manzini, E. (2008) Collaborative services: Social innovation and designfor sustainability. Edizoni POLI.design, p. 31-43. Download the book for free at:

http://www.sustainable-everyday.net/main/?page_id=26

Messeter, J. 2009 Apr 16. Place-Specific Computing: A Place-centric Perspective

for Digital Designs. International Journal of Design [Online] 3:1. Available:

http://www.ijdesign.org/ojs/index.php/IJDesign/article/view/353

Other sources:

http://www.instructables.com/

http://blog.makezine.com/

http://www.kobakant.at/DIY/

http://arduino.cc/http://tigoe.net/pcomp

http://www.dourish.com/

http://www.ubicomp2010.org/
http://www.sustainable-everyday.net/main/?page_id=26http://www.sustainable-everyday.net/main/?page_id=26http://www.ijdesign.org/ojs/index.php/IJDesign/article/view/353http://www.ijdesign.org/ojs/index.php/IJDesign/article/view/353http://arduino.cc/http://arduino.cc/http://tigoe.net/pcomphttp://tigoe.net/pcomphttp://www.dourish.com/http://www.dourish.com/http://www.ubicomp2010.org/http://www.ubicomp2010.org/http://www.ubicomp2010.org/http://www.dourish.com/http://tigoe.net/pcomphttp://arduino.cc/http://www.ijdesign.org/ojs/index.php/IJDesign/article/view/353http://www.sustainable-everyday.net/main/?page_id=26

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