October 31, 2010
Cultural Probes
This piece is a classic: Gaver, B., Dunne, T., and Pacenti, E. 1999. Design: Cultural probes.interactions 6, 1 (Jan. 1999), 21-29.
Short summary and references from Usability Book of Knowledge on cultural probes. Including this:
Boehner, K., Vertesi, J., Sengers, P., and Dourish, P. (2007). How HCI interprets the probes. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (San Jose, California, USA, April 28 – May 03, 2007). CHI ’07. ACM, New York, NY, 1077-1086.
This article traces the user of cultural probes and highlights the analysis and interpretation challenges and issues posed by this method.
Filed by Nancy Van House at 7:37 pm under Cultural Probes,Methods
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