On Thursday from 12 pm to 1:30 pm, I observed various individuals interacting with the microwave in the staff lounge in the Queen Mother Building on the University of Dundee campus. The staff lounge is a bright room with a southern exposure on the third floor of the Queen Mother building. The southern wall, composed … Continue reading »
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Seeking Feedback on Microwave Prototypes
We are down to the last stretch for our HCI project redesigning the microwave for universal accessibility without relying on language. Here are two of our most recent prototypes! Here’s a quick description of what is common to both prototypes: There are two variables you can adjust on a microwave–power level and time. For our … Continue reading »
Field Note Experimentation
The least enjoyable part of being an ethnographer, my class mates and I have discovered, may be the writing up of field notes. The notes we take in the field, which we actually call scratch notes, have to be translated into something that is reasonably coherent and human readable. Pictures have to be added in … Continue reading »
