Papers by Rebecca Pohlner
In this paper we discuss the value of an open, responsive research structure in the context of a ... more In this paper we discuss the value of an open, responsive research structure in the context of a multi faceted, critical design project that has participation at its core. Problems with data delivery rendered our original design research structure unviable. Turning to the crafts that underpinned our research enabled the emergence of a new–open and responsive–structure. As a direct result, we arrived at a number of unexpected, highly valuable outcomes. The contributions of this paper are fourfold: 1) we provide a 'live' story from research practice, within which, 2) we argue the usefulness of a core provocative question to ensure saliency of critical designs, 3) we demonstrate the value of unresolved prototypes in eliciting participant engagement, and 4) we discuss how craft can serve as method, technique and tool to scaffold an open, responsive research structure. A number of researchers have highlighted the need for documentation and reporting of design process [9, 20, 37, ...
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When designing material interactions using digital and other technologies, ideation and developme... more When designing material interactions using digital and other technologies, ideation and development timelines can go out of sync. In this paper we discuss how a crafts-driven approach to wearable technologies can sensitise researchers to novel ways of moving forward when faced with such a challenge. We identify 'no-tech' prototyping as a powerful paradigm for ideating wearable technologies when the technologies are not yet specified or available; and we describe four craft-based conceptual lenses - an approach, expression, dialogue and language - that support the development of no-tech prototypes at a range of resolutions. The Poetic Kinaesthetic Interface project (PKI) serves as our case for study. PKI aims to support material innovation in the context of wearable technologies for enhanced embodied interactions. At a crucial point in an early phase of PKI we were stopped short by a delay in data delivery. Faced with an impasse, we turned to our crafts to find a way forward....
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Proceedings of the 2014 conference on Designing interactive systems - DIS '14, 2014
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In this paper we discuss the value of an open, responsive research structure in the context of a ... more In this paper we discuss the value of an open, responsive research structure in the context of a multi faceted, critical design project that has participation at its core. Problems with data delivery rendered our original design research structure unviable. Turning to the crafts that underpinned our research enabled the emergence of a new–open and responsive–structure. As a direct result, we arrived at a number of unexpected, highly valuable outcomes. The contributions of this paper are fourfold: 1) we provide a 'live' story from research practice, within which, 2) we argue the usefulness of a core provocative question to ensure saliency of critical designs, 3) we demonstrate the value of unresolved prototypes in eliciting participant engagement, and 4) we discuss how craft can serve as method, technique and tool to scaffold an open, responsive research structure. A number of researchers have highlighted the need for documentation and reporting of design process [9, 20, 37, ...
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