TaskCam: Designing and Testing an Open Tool for Cultural Probes Studies
TaskCam: Designing and Testing an Open Tool for Cultural Probes Studies
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TaskCam：设计和测试文化探索研究的开放工具
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2018
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William W. Gaver
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Andy Boucher;Dean Brown;Liliana Ovalle;Andy Sheen;Mike Vanis;William Odom;D. Oogjes;William W. Gaver
TaskCams是一种简单的数码相机，旨在作为文化探索研究的工具，由互动研究工作室通过开源分发提供。与相关网站、说明和视频相结合，它们代表了传播和促进研究方法的新战略。与此同时，它们提供了无数的定制和修改选项，使研究人员能够采用和调整它们以满足他们的需求。在本文的第一部分中，设计团队描述了TaskCams的基本原理和设计，以及为使其公开可用而开发的策略。在第二部分中，这个故事由日常设计工作室的设计师讲述，他们组装了自己的任务摄像机，并为他们正在进行的项目进行的文化探索研究进行了广泛的定制。我们不讨论他们的研究结果，而是关注他们的经验如何揭示了在生产和使用这些开源产品时的一些问题。这些都表明了TaskCams在更广泛地支持设计主导的用户研究方面的潜力。
TaskCams are simple digital cameras intended to serve as a tool for Cultural Probe studies and made available by the Interaction Research Studio via open-source distribution. In conjunction with an associated website, instructions and videos, they represent a novel strategy for disseminating and facilitating a research methodology. At the same time, they provide a myriad of options for customisation and modification, allowing researchers to adopt and adapt them to their needs. In the first part of this paper, the design team describes the rationale and design of the TaskCams and the tactics developed to make them publicly available. In the second part, the story is taken up by designers from the Everyday Design Studio, who assembled their own TaskCams and customised them extensively for a Cultural Probe study they ran for an ongoing project. Rather than discussing the results of their study, we focus on how their experiences reveal some of the issues both in producing and using open-source products such as these. These suggest the potential of TaskCams to support design-led user studies more generally.