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- 1. Rachel Clarke rachel.clarke@ncl.ac.uk Working with sensory ethnography and bodystorming in interaction design
- 2. Session Overview Overview of approaches Share insights taken from examples of practice Apply insights to case study
- 3. Session Overview 10.00am – 10.40am Sensory Ethnography & Bodystorming Presentation 10.40am – 11.20am Group Work Case Study 11.20am – 12.00pm Group Feedback Discussion
- 4. Group ideas … • Piece of writing • Body mapping • How is it different to regular ethnography? • Immersed in experience / culture / scenario • Not thinking about yourself but thinking about your senses • Self-ethnography What do you already know about sensory ethnography?
- 5. What do you already know about bodystorming? Group ideas … • Like brainstorming but using the body • Doing your design where the thing you’re designing for is going to be used • Getting ideas about how your body responds to place and a particular idea
- 6. Pink ‘A sensory ethnography methodology aspires to […][explore] the sensory embodied experience and ways of knowing of both the researcher and research participants as they collaborate to bring [practices] into focus’ [p. 5] Pink, S., Mackley, K.L., Mitchell, V., Hanratty, M., Escobar-Tello, C., Bhamra, T., Morosanu, R. Applying the Lens of Sensory Ethnography to Sustainable HCI. TOCHI, 20 (4) 25 (2013)
- 7. Schleicher, Jones & Kachur ‘The goal of embodied storming is not just the instrumental formulation of better experience ideas in the context of their use, but we also aim to enact a tangible understanding of the entanglements and actions of human activity in possible future situations.’ [p. 47] Schleicher, D., Jones, P. & Kachur, O. Bodystorming as Embodied Designing. Interactions 17 (6) (2010) 47-51
- 8. Making sense through the body place practices movement embodimentconnections materials messiness
- 11. Part of a sensory ethnography
- 12. Part of a sensory ethnography Photographs and field notes of … tours of the buildings by members of staff on how they currently used and hoped to use space my own journey to and from university to the centre observations on how spaces were used for workshops my own participation in workshops, social events, attending meetings and waiting observations of technology use by staff, clients and volunteers
- 13. Learning from the process relevance of place technology as part of sensory environment, materials, acoustics, textures, food, smells attentive to details, both in focus and on the periphery contrast of performed ‘tours’, informal observation and own experience
- 15. An approach to bodystorming
- 16. Shared photos in design team
- 18. Opportunities for negotiating privacy
- 19. Opportunities for negotiating privacy
- 20. Bodystorming using paper props
- 21. Bodystorming using paper props
- 22. Bodystorming using paper props
- 23. Would these ideas work in new centre?
- 24. Learning from the process • Preparation of materials and space needed • Explore physical connections • Many small steps and discussions needed within design team • Documentation and communication was a challenge
- 25. Case Study We are currently exploring the potential of music and sound based intergenerational digital sharing in public spaces. The purpose is to develop inspiration for experimental digital platforms to connect people within cities. We’d like to initially consider a number of local cafés as potential places for this approach. 2 groups – sensory ethnography 3 groups – bodystorming
- 26. When you come back … In your groups spend 5 minutes consolidating your experience. Think about the opportunities and challenges of the approach you just used
- 27. Feedback / Discussion Sensory ethnography can be useful because … • Can highlight personal connections people have with place • Encourages people to wander at their own pace • Opens up exploratory lines of inquiry • Audio-visual documentation helps recollection and acts as reminders • Requires rapport, responsivness, reflexive and sometimes intimate engagement with people and place
- 28. Feedback / Discussion Sensory ethnography can be challenging because … • Lots of senses to think about • Documentation (photography, note-taking, video) can feel intrusive • Can feel fake for participant if too guided by ethnographer • Easier to do ordinary ethnography • If design brief is too closed, focusing on a particular sense (such as sound) can be too restrictive in closing down exploration
- 29. Feedback / Discussion Bodystorming can be useful because … • Helps to work out technically how things might work in situ • Helps to work through ideas without investing lots of time on development • Creates quick feedback loops on ideas • Practical enactment on how people might use a service / technology
- 30. Feedback / Discussion Bodystorming can be challenging because … • Can be difficult to find ways to get started • Difficult if not confident in acting / role play • Requires imaginative leaps and improvisation which might need practice • Could be difficult to encourage partners / participants to get involved • Documentation to communicate to partners is difficult to do if engaged in trying things out • If actual place not available, can be difficult to recreate right atmosphere • Focus on what is currently in place
Editor's Notes
- Practice in place Messiness, movement, processes Entanglements of things Collaborative and participatory
- Already have some ideas of the issues you’re trying to address and this makes it more concrete as a way of testing out what is needed and whether it feels like a good idea or not. Can be done by designers within teams, with partners,
- Sensory ethnography - Important aspect of building partnerships with staff and getting to know people. Instead of interviews – these were walk arounds in the centre, which I wrote up as field notes and took photographs of particular sessions and spaces. At this stage I did not want to stick a video camera in people’s faces, but wanted people to show me parts of the centre that they used, which we talked about in relation to running workshops and sessions. This was also accompanied by my own experiences of waiting for meetings and being invited to events, where there was food made by the group to share and getting cups of tea and lunch in the kitchen. Having done a sensory ethnography was also important then for feeding into the design of the probes, analysis & ideation and consolidating these through bodystorming
- Sensory ethnography helped to inform probe and workshop design for the second phase of the research Helped to highlight how privacy – an issue discussed by the women I worked with – was challenging to manage in light of the centre and a need to find trustworthy support and building trust – often means sharing something personal, but feeling like they didn’t want to be gossiped about. Centre moved premises in June – Sept -
- Shared findings in design team using videos and photographs I sketched maps of the centre and shared stories about how and why some of the women came there and how they used technology
- Shared findings in design team using videos and photographs I sketched maps of the centre and shared stories about how and why some of the women came there and how they used technology
- Made paper props based on initial ideation
- Generated ideas around opportunities for negotiating privacy in ways that could be personally meaningful using the physical environment rather than systems management approach Mapped out how privacy was physically negotiated within the centre and with technology
- Generated ideas around opportunities for negotiating privacy in ways that could be personally meaningful using the physical environment rather than systems management approach Mapped out how privacy was physically negotiated within the centre and with technology
- Made paper props based on initial ideation
- Made paper props based on initial ideation
- Made paper props based on initial ideation
- Realised none of the ideas could work in the new centre
- Partners and participants – general public