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Pressure cooker3Analyzing & Abstracting –

Creating acommunal vision

Creating Opportunities –

Picking the right concept

5Perceiving –

Putting the information tothe test

6Validating –

Let the children play

7Analyzing –

The new and improved

8Doing –

Testing and making the prototypes

9Perceiving and Doing –

The newtechnology

10 and 11Integrating –

Making the whole

12Realization –

The concept description

13 and 14Appendix1. List of criteria2. Crucial questions3. Brainstorm technique4. Matrix5. The three concepts6. Books we used as magnetconcept8. Summary of what we thoughtwas useful9. Interview expert10. Primary school visit13. Magnet order14. Circuit16. Materials15 to 2515151616171718 and 192021 and 22232425

Index

Pressure CookerOf course we, as every project group, started off with the pressure cooker.We were a bit surprised by the approach of the beginning on our project,because we expected more or less an introduction to the study and a generaltake off. But we tried to make the best of it, started reading our projectdescription and started brainstorming.Surprisingly, this went pretty well and we already had lots of (diverse) ideas.Of course with the pressure cooker we had a tight schedule, so decisions hadto be made quickly. Eventually we chose our idea of a ‘touchscreentable’,which was a lot like the entertaible from Philips we heard later on. Because aworking prototype was impossible within this pressure cooker, we tried toexplain our concept by the use of a role-play.Although we didn’t really notice it yet, we actually already learned a lotabout our project. We received our feedback where was said that one of themain principles of our project was (and is) that our concept had to bepractical; you have to be able to carry it with you. In other words, our ‘table’wouldn’t fit the bill as a good idea for this project. Furthermore, the expertstold us that the design of the table wasn’t the big issue, but that the softwarewas the tricky part. And of course because our concept was a lot like theentertaible, it already warned us that we always have to keep track off thelatest designs/products in our target area.