Cultural probes - Interaction research studio - Goldsmiths

The storybook probe

In 2009, I worked as a researcher at the 'Interaction Research Studio' at Goldsmiths - Department of Design, where we collaboratively created the storybook probe called 'Around my home in 80 days': a book that invites its readers- participants to create narratives and designs about their homes with a view to inspire designers-researchers who work with domestic interaction design. 

probes

Later, I was involved in the creation other cultural research probes: 'a design-led approach to understanding users that stressed empathy and engagement'. These included 'collections of evocative tasks meant to elicit inspirational responses from people—not comprehensive information about them, but fragmentary clues about their lives and thoughts'.