Hi list, (sorry for the long text, I promise there's a concrete question at
the end)
I'm coaching a game designer / toy designer for a small knowledge-transfer
project, for which she's creating tangible devices for 7-12 y.o. children.
As a professional designer of toys for children and simple video games, she
has plenty of experience with the more "craft" parts of her creative
practice, but less with observation and systematic evaluation.
We have a few deployments planned in the next months, and my task is to
support her in user studies & validation of her designs.
She's familiar with more quantitative methods - from collecting data
analytics from the video games engine to using questionnaires.
We also went through the major Child-Computer Interaction literature (I'm
thinking Janet Read and Libby Hanna).
To complement all this, we'd also like to use a more qualitative,
ethnography-inspired approach.
Some other researchers will also be there during the deployments, but I
feel it's important that also she (as the lead designer) actively observes
what's going on.
And now, finally, here's finally my question to the list. I keep advising
her to be "open to unexpected", to avoid focusing too much on the artifact
and too little on the context, and to keep her eyes open for what the
children might surprise us with. "This is all good, in theory", she says,
"But can you point me at concrete examples of these kind of ethnographic
descriptions for designers?"
I proposed Ferreira & Hook 2011 "Bodily orientations around mobiles:
lessons learnt in vanuatu"
http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1978981&CFID=900476622&CFTOKEN=42976975
and, in part, Tieben 2015 "Activating Play"
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/282337629_Activating_Play_a_design_research_study_on_how_to_elicit_playful_interaction_from_teenagers
Can anyone suggest some more exemplar studies along those lines? Bonus
points if they deal with kids & play
(I am also urging my colleague to join the list, so I won't need to be her
ambassador anymore)
thanks,
G:
Gabriele Ferri, Ph.D.
Design researcher // Play & Civic Media - Amsterdam University of Applied
Sciences
www.gabrieleferri.com
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