The document summarizes an interactive companion concept called the "Buddy Wall" designed to help relieve stress. It includes personas of potential users, cultural probes to understand user behaviors and perspectives, journey maps of user experiences, and prototypes of key features including a wall that displays photos and talks to the user, and a map customization feature on a phone. The goal is to provide companionship and encourage breaking from daily routines to reduce stress and feelings of being trapped.

1. Team Simple
Yurae Kim, SeoYeon Kim, Christine McGahhey

2. CONTENTS
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Introduction
Persona Design
Probe Design
Journey / Context Map
Wireframe
Concept Video
Prototype Video

3. “ Interactive Companion for You ”
Nowadays, people rarely have time for themselves. Many people
feel trapped by endless days filled with office, cars, and work.
Sometimes people even feel alienated. For those people, we had
thought of interactive wall – buddy wall.
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Your personal buddy will always be there for you during your
daily routine and stressful life. You can slowly build intimacy as you
see them in their different hidden places, tell them your worries, or
simply check to see what they are doing. Users will be encouraged
to explore more areas and break from routine, and will have their
buddy there every step of the way.

4. PERSONA DESIGN

5. PERSONA

6. 4 PERSONAS

7. The goal of our design is to help people relieve stresss, and the age range
between 20s to 30s fits the best. Both the type 1 and the type 2 were
expected to fit into the age group, and are familiar with technology. For
the technology aspect, almost non of them would have problem in adapting
to the interface. But with sociability par, we can expect two different kinds
of reaction from them. While persona type 1 has an extroverted
characteristic, she/he would easily approach and enjoy the wall, the type 2
persona who has an introverted characteristic can be expected to associate
with the wall in a different way to the type 1 persona.
MAIN PERSONAS

8. CULTURAL PROBE

9. CONSIST OF

10. CULTURAL PROBE PACKET

11. CULTURAL PROBE PARTICIPANTS

12. PROBE ANALYSIS
Unique Perspectives
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High amount of Travel
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Desire to get out of their
daily routine
Customization
Location based
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Give opportunity to get
out of their daily routine
They participated in our cultural probe research for more than 3 weeks of time period, and gave us urban
contextual insights on emotional aspects of public space navigations and associations.

13. INTERVIEWS

14. QUESTIONS
▪ How did you enjoy using the packet?
▪ How about making the videos?
▪ What did you think as you did the activities?
▪ Tell me more details about the maps you made.
▪ Why did you choose the colors that you did for each
day?
▪ What kind of things make you stressed during the week?
▪ What types of things relax you? (Activities, animals,
people, etc. Please explain in detail what and why.)

15. Results
▪ Participants move very dynamically in their
living spaces
▪ People usually have certain routes they take
almost daily
▪ They enjoy breaking from routine
▪ Introverts moods are more affected by
external factors and sensitive to their
environment

16. JOURNEY MAP

17. JOURNEY MAP - WALL

18. JOURNEY MAP - PHONE

19. CONTEXT MAP

20. CONTEXT MAPPING - WALL

21. CONTEXT MAPPING - PHONE

22. Wireframe

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NARRATIVE
SCENARIO

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29. CONCEPT VIDEO

30. https://vimeo.com/130054345

31. PROTOTYPE

32. KEY FEATURES 1
PHOTOS TALKING

33. KEY FEATURES 2
MAP CUSTOMIZATION

34. PROTOTYPE
https://vimeo.com/130038884

35. THANK YOU