032 | Cultural Probes |
Provocative instruments to inspire new forms of self-understanding and communication
- Use materials such as postcards, journals, cameras, text, and imagery to gather personal insights from participants.
- Provocations are designed to inspire people to thoughtfully consider personal context and circumstance and respond in unique, creative ways.
- Materials should be varied and imaginative to elicit responses that are relevant to the design inquiry.
- Probes are flexible, open-ended, and intentionally subjective, collecting inspirational data to stimulate design imagination.
- Design probes support empathic understanding through information gathering over a prolonged period, where the researcher cannot be present.
- Probe kits are combined with other research methods such as observations, site visits, and interviews.
- Probes should be thoughtful in aesthetic craft, message, and delivery and be created to inspire delight and respect, response, and return.
See alsoDiary Studies • Experience Sampling Method • Photo Studies
A study on mass customization of products collected personal stories of participants using a cultural probe kit of digital voice recorders, cameras, postcards, diaries, and stickers.
Courtesy of Kate Herd
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