M-ITI Capstones Workshop
22-23 January 2015 at the Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute in Funchal, Portugal
Participants: 8 HCI students in two Capstone projects.
Facilitator: Maja Kuzmanovic (FoAM)
Moderators: Julian Hana, Simone Ashby-Hana, Evan Karapanos (M-ITI)
Read Capstones Flow to learn more about the techniques used in the workshop.
Photos on Flickr
Core Question
Core question for the Capstones workshop: “How can Capstones enable empowering transformative experiences?”
This question was chosen to connect capstones to M-ITI’s mission: “To research, enable, design and create transformative experiences that empower people to live the best possible lives in harmony with the environment.”
Transformative Experiences
Think of a situation in which you had- or you enabled a transformative experience. What did you do? How did you feel? What resources were available to you?“
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In addition to the personal transformative experiences, we talked about what would make Capstones transformative experiences for the students.
Actions:
- Novelty - new methods, tasks, people and tools
- Successful completions of tasks
- Sense of creating a product
- Clarity of direction
- Understanding of own capabilities
- Identifying with the cause
- Cultural exposure
- Projects being used and useful beyond the end-date of Capstones
Aside from all the emotions in the image above, patience and balance were mentioned as important in the experience of Capstones.
Resources needed:
- Positive team dynamics which includes productive conflict, good team-mates
- Access: to users, good internet access, as well as reliable power and appropriate equipment
- Time - to work on the project, but also enough time away from the project
- Creative working space, 'decorated' with things that make people happy
- Additional communication skills
- Budget
Mapping the territory
- What do we know about the current situation of Capstones?
- What can we presume about Capstones?
- What do we not know about Capstones?
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Drivers of change
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Drivers of change: technological
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Drivers of change: economic and environmental
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Drivers of change: societal and political
Scenarios
Four scenarios were created, see more about the scenarios on their respective pages:
- Crescendo where growth is primary motivation
- Dystopia where the world as we know it collapsed
- Extreme New World where discipline reigns
- Robot Caregivers where the world is transformed
Design Brief
- What is the project?
- Who is it for?
- Why is this project important?
- Where and how will it be used?
- What needs to be done? By whom? By when?
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RootIO
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PLAY
Questions and answers
What is the root problem of this capstone project? How would you answer your core question in the four scenarios?
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Question for RootIO
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Answers from RootIO
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Question for PLAY
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Answers from PLAY
From Goal to Health
A series of coaching conversations with the two teams resulted in elaborations of goals, needs, features, options, benefits, risks and values.
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Growth cards by Vali Lalioti used to guide conversations
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Notes from RootIO discussions
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Notes from PLAY discussions