LMU SKWH 2021
Contents
Welcome to Sketching With Hardware Summer Term 2021!
Kickoff (April 15): Task 0
Please watch Introduction to sketching with hardware on YouTube (16 min): https://youtu.be/Irxo9b5cexs
[Optional] please read “Understanding and researching through making: a plea for functional prototypes” [1], 4 pages magazine paper
[Optional] please watch a longer talk on sketching with hardware (58 min) https://www.ubicomp.net/talks/skhw2021/sketching-ssp05_player.html
Make and bring a paper prototype of head worn device, that provides feedback to the environment about availability of the person, similar to the necklace described in [2].
References
[1] Albrecht Schmidt. 2017. Understanding and researching through making: a plea for functional prototypes. interactions 24, 3 (May + June 2017), 78–81. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3058498 PDF: https://www.sketching-with-hardware.org/files/functional3058498.pdf
[2] Jonna Häkkilä, Romina Poguntke, Emmi Harjuniemi, Lauri Hakala, Ashley Colley, and Albrecht Schmidt. 2020. BuSiNec - Studying the Effects of a Busyness Signifying Necklace in the Wild. In Proceedings of the 2020 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS '20). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 2177–2188. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3357236.3395455 PDF: https://lacris.ulapland.fi/ws/portalfiles/portal/6805172/3357236.3395455.pdf
Session 1: Introduction (May 6)
- Discussion of Task 0
- Introduction to the course book
- Hardware handout/delivery organization
Tasks
- Complete Tasks 1, 3, and 6
- Submission deadline: May 19 (Uni2Work)
Session 2 (May 20)
- Hardware Kit: Did everyone get one?
- Review Task 1
Tasks
- Complete Tasks 9, 10, 12, 13, 14
- Submission deadline: June 2 (Uni2Work)
Session 3 (June 10)
- Forming groups
- Review tasks from Session 2
- Project ideation
Tasks
- Complete Tasks 16, 17, 18
- Group project ideation: Your turn (more information following)
Submission deadline: June 23 (Uni2Work)
Session 4 (June 24)
- Group project pitches
- Review tasks from Session 3
Dates
Meetings start at 6pm and last around one hour.
15.04. Kickoff: Dates, Format, Hardware delivery organization, Task: read paper and prepare paper prototype
6.05. Hardware presentation, forming teams, Tasks 1
20.05. Tasks 2
10.06. Tasks 3;
24.06. Group projects pitches
Additional dates will follow after June 24 for the group projects.
