Designing Interaction For Social Change

Designing Interactions for Social Change bram@brampitoyo.com

Making it natural to do the right things

Video User Gaming Experience Architecture

Video Gaming User Experience Architecture Age Fairly new Relatively old Oldest Space usage Both Virtual Real Story Always “Persona” Usually not Uses Play Work Both Interactivity Yes Yes Yes

An example: Status/proﬁle menu

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1 Environments and Places Tutorials, Not Case Studies Acknowledging Co-presence Semi-consciousness Making A Space An Interface

Introduction to an interesting (and potentially useful) technique

Reversing the classroom model

Onward

Environments and Places Tutorials, Not Case Studies Acknowledging Co-presence Semi-consciousness Making A Space An Interface

Environments and Places / Tutorials, Not Case Studies / Acknowledging Co-presence / Semi-consciousness / Making A Space An Interface Interfaces should be thought of as both built and living environments

Environments and Places / Tutorials, Not Case Studies / Acknowledging Co-presence / Semi-consciousness / Making A Space An Interface Users feel more comfortable the more tangible a space is

Environments and Places / Tutorials, Not Case Studies / Acknowledging Co-presence / Semi-consciousness / Making A Space An Interface Metaphors should extend beyond wording to behavior

Environments and Places / Tutorials, Not Case Studies / Acknowledging Co-presence / Semi-consciousness / Making A Space An Interface “Players like to feel clever.”

Environments and Places / Tutorials, Not Case Studies / Acknowledging Co-presence / Semi-consciousness / Making A Space An Interface Provide visibility of what’s to come

Environments and Places / Tutorials, Not Case Studies / Acknowledging Co-presence / Semi-consciousness / Making A Space An Interface Dumbing down or have them ﬁgure it out?

Environments and Places / Tutorials, Not Case Studies / Acknowledging Co-presence / Semi-consciousness / Making A Space An Interface Case study doesn’t work because studying is not feeling

Environments and Places / Tutorials, Not Case Studies / Acknowledging Co-presence / Semi-consciousness / Making A Space An Interface Promoting the perception that ethics is special

Environments and Places / Tutorials, Not Case Studies / Acknowledging Co-presence / Semi-consciousness / Making A Space An Interface Allowing people to reﬂect their decisions on the test subject’s

Environments and Places / Tutorials, Not Case Studies / Acknowledging Co-presence / Semi-consciousness / Making A Space An Interface Design tutorial areas, not faqs

Environments and Places / Tutorials, Not Case Studies / Acknowledging Co-presence / Semi-consciousness / Making A Space An Interface The need for narrative

Environments and Places / Tutorials, Not Case Studies / Acknowledging Co-presence / Semi-consciousness / Making A Space An Interface Other users are always there, even if one isn’t looking

Environments and Places / Tutorials, Not Case Studies / Acknowledging Co-presence / Semi-consciousness / Making A Space An Interface Easy to achieve in general-purpose, catch all, publicly accessible networks

Environments and Places / Tutorials, Not Case Studies / Acknowledging Co-presence / Semi-consciousness / Making A Space An Interface But when you design for something niche, privately owned and ‘serious’…

Environments and Places / Tutorials, Not Case Studies / Acknowledging Co-presence / Semi-consciousness / Making A Space An Interface Encourage belonging and co-ownership of space

Environments and Places / Tutorials, Not Case Studies / Acknowledging Co-presence / Semi-consciousness / Making A Space An Interface Engage users in something bigger than themselves

Environments and Places / Tutorials, Not Case Studies / Acknowledging Co-presence / Semi-consciousness / Making A Space An Interface Demon’s Souls (Demo)

Environments and Places / Tutorials, Not Case Studies / Acknowledging Co-presence / Semi-consciousness / Making A Space An Interface Bloodstains, messages and invasions of game

Environments and Places / Tutorials, Not Case Studies / Acknowledging Co-presence / Semi-consciousness / Making A Space An Interface The problem with Google Wave

Environments and Places / Tutorials, Not Case Studies / Acknowledging Co-presence / Semi-consciousness / Making A Space An Interface (& the problem with IM)

Environments and Places / Tutorials, Not Case Studies / Acknowledging Co-presence / Semi-consciousness / Making A Space An Interface A possible hybrid

Environments and Places / Tutorials, Not Case Studies / Acknowledging Co-presence / Semi-consciousness / Making A Space An Interface Just enough privacy to prevent torrent of consciousness, yet relax self-censorship

Environments and Places / Tutorials, Not Case Studies / Acknowledging Co-presence / Semi-consciousness / Making A Space An Interface “Changing the alphabet”

Environments and Places / Tutorials, Not Case Studies / Acknowledging Co-presence / Semi-consciousness / Making A Space An Interface Plot development in game design equals persona in user experience

Environments and Places / Tutorials, Not Case Studies / Acknowledging Co-presence / Semi-consciousness / Making A Space An Interface Character development equals what?

Environments and Places / Tutorials, Not Case Studies / Acknowledging Co-presence / Semi-consciousness / Making A Space An Interface Why can’t users level up or gain new abilities?

Environments and Places / Tutorials, Not Case Studies / Acknowledging Co-presence / Semi-consciousness / Making A Space An Interface After enough “level gains”…

Environments and Places / Tutorials, Not Case Studies / Acknowledging Co-presence / Semi-consciousness / Making A Space An Interface (this is going to be controversial)

Environments and Places / Tutorials, Not Case Studies / Acknowledging Co-presence / Semi-consciousness / Making A Space An Interface Designers should ﬁrst design, but over a period of time—

Environments and Places / Tutorials, Not Case Studies / Acknowledging Co-presence / Semi-consciousness / Making A Space An Interface relegate ability to shape the world to users

Environments and Places / Tutorials, Not Case Studies / Acknowledging Co-presence / Semi-consciousness / Making A Space An Interface How this applies in an individual environment v. a shared one

Environments and Places / Tutorials, Not Case Studies / Acknowledging Co-presence / Semi-consciousness / Making A Space An Interface When user creates her own experience, doing the ethical comes naturally.

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Designing Interaction For Social Change

by Bram Pitoyo on Oct 29, 2009

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