Reflection on workshops cycle 1 Aline van Vliet 1355953

Workshop Interaction Vision 1st of October During the interaction vision workshop I learned how to establish an interaction vision. We practised designing an inspiring lunch experience for the canteen downstairs with the interaction vision refreshing openness. It was a good exercise that showed me the pitfalls of an interaction vision; if the terms have overlap (openness = refreshing) for example, they might not tell enough about the interaction qualities. I also learned that I have to be very picky with a metaphor and give a clear explanation otherwise different people might interpret it differently. Observational research clinic with Armagan Albayrak 4th of Oct. I prepared for the observational research clinic by planning my design intervention (below). I got useful additional advice from Mrs. Albayrak; Ask the person about the experience during the experience, ask her why she turns into a certain direction at each decision moment. I adjusted my design intervention according to the clinic. She also mentioned that I could give the person some additional info on the environment, which I did not do because I wanted a clear contrast between conscious navigation and wandering around. I do want to apply this advice in a next design intervention because a newly raised question is: in what way should information on the environment be provided by my design? Workshop Interaction Prototyping 11th of Oct This workshop was a nice opportunity to do a design intervention, see appendix G for more details. My buddy group played two different prototypes. Their feedback raised new research questions right away, mainly about the level of detail of the signal that the design gives to the user: Should the design offer a detour as well as a shortest route back? Should the interaction be more playful as with the warm/cold signal, or should it be more specific as with the right/left/backward/forward signal? Does the user set the starting point? Can that be different points? I thought of part of these things so some questions are new and I will answer them during design interventions in the second cycle.