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2016 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

Probing – Two Perspectives to Participation

Authors : Tuuli Mattelmäki, Andrés Lucero, Jung-Joo Lee

Published in: Collaboration in Creative Design

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

Practitioners from different fields of design and research apply the ‘Probing’ method as means of getting a better understanding of their users and to inspire their designs. During the 15 years since its first appearance, the probing method has been extended for deployment in different contexts and for different uses. In this chapter we first briefly introduce what probes are about, then we look at probing from two perspectives: (a) as a process of collaborative discovery and learning, and (b) as a tool for entering the users’ contexts. We illustrate these perspectives through cases in which probes have been introduced in educational and professional environments. Based on the findings, we discuss how a making process of probes can engage a design research team to the issues of concern, and present a set of problems and challenges encountered while probing professional work. Finally, we propose a set of considerations for designing probes for different purposes.

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Metadata
Title
Probing – Two Perspectives to Participation
Authors
Tuuli Mattelmäki
Andrés Lucero
Jung-Joo Lee
Copyright Year
2016
Book
Collaboration in Creative Design

Print ISBN: 978-3-319-29153-6

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-29155-0

Copyright Year: 2016

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-29155-0_3