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Systems and Society Blog Post: Week 2

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Blog Post Assignment Part 1: Write a 100/150-word 'positionality' statement.    Task 1.  To write you positionality statement, y ou can use the “Wheel of Power & Privilege” (below) to scaffold your thoughts and reflections. See also, Catherine D’Ignazio’s positionality statement (below) as example. However, it is entirely up to you what you include or exclude from this statement to describe who you are. Example: My  Positionality Annie  Lambert is a post graduate HCI student at Newcastle University. Before moving to Newcastle, she worked 3 years in South Korea and 2 years in Las Vegas upon completing her Undergraduate from BYU. From a white middle class background, she primarily grew up in Phoenix Arizona but moved to Redmond Washington where she was exposed to more cultures and diverse perspectives. Upon expanding her connections with people she become more self aware of her privilege.  She also had the opportunity and privilege of traveling to many countries in her youth
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Week 2: Lecture 4 Ideation, Co-creation and concept sketching

 Ideation and Concept Sketching Project expectations: Communicate a critically analyzed design  Don Normans 4 Principles: 1. Understand people 2. Focus on the people 3. Solving the right problem not the symptoms     -Users may tell you small problems(Symptoms) and it's your jobs to identify the bigger problem 4. Always be iterating and improving Card-based Techniques for Ideation: When designers are developing ideas it forces yourself to consider different design/user aspects  Why? help us better understand the end user population and the research context or setting  What? Think about ideas and sensitize people to the ethics. Evokes consideration and discussion of longer term effects
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Interaction Design/UX Methods Intro

  Create a social and technical intervention that helps users meaningfully and responsibly collect data from other people and their local environment Ideas: AR - for local environment explore a city, where a food truck is, where local things are that aren't represented in google maps Wellbeing- Homeless mentally unwell      More than 1 group- Example Students and teacher Safe schools in America British Slang: Bang On - Continuously they are  exactly right in their opinions or actions   Ballocks - Vulgar. rubbish; nonsense; claptrap Fab- 
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* Research Methods: Guest Speaker

  Interpretation must be defensible Familiarization:  can create maps for yourself to immerse and better understand the data  Coding: finding meaningful relations to your research question from your data/transcripts  You can 
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Presentations Reflections

 Reflections: Condensing and adapting to the situation. Catch social que's. Be ready to change your presentation to how people are responding and what they seem interested in. Be concise. Answer the questions directly addressing one at a time. Repeat it back. Prioritize certain parts of the presentation that will help us understand your product more. If all are equally important than shorten all of them equally so you can get through all the info. Just do surface level explanation and if people have questions you can more in-depth then. bike maintenance- don't assume people have had this experience or pain point if it is a niche group (Bikers that need maintenance tools) Be mindful of time restraints and respect them. In corporate settings time is money and your boss will not take kindly for not respecting the set time given.        "mine umbrella flipped today" - Relatable humor that also adds to point you're trying to make (Wind is common in this city) Teacher C
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* Research: Different Analysis

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  Research Methods - Be transparent about what your biases are/could be in your research. - Theme names give some indication of what problem you are addressing -Appendices will give people opportunity to check your code and data Thematic Analysis: Look for patterns (Themes, hence the name) across textual data. The examples he showed was transcripts from conversations between researchers. He also showed us an example where the designers that updated the Metro used Mural to organize their themes and notes on the different areas that need to be addressed in their design. The themes can have subcategories that are more descriptive( CCTV--> Anti-social behavior). The Process:  Familiarization--> coding --> generate themes --> review themes codes --> define and name themes --> write up analysis  Grounded Theory: This one is different because you don't have a specific theory or hypothesis (or preconceptions about the theory). You just select an area of interest and begin
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Slow Computing, Digital Civics and Portfolio Project

 Slow Computing & Digital Civics Slow Computing: - Cultural shift towards slowing down life's pace - Computing is deeply imbedded in our lives - Slow computing VS Calm technology     - calm tech promotes moments of reflection and mental rest. The info is presented passively and it's usually in our poriferas.  - Some Design: meditative bodily introspection -Fast Technology: well-defined task, efficient, easy to use Reflection: Most companies are focus on quick profits, fast technology. Slow technology cares more about the users mental wellbeing. As UX designers we need to design for slowness, solitude and mental rest. How do we change the functionalities and design to help the users not get overwhelmed? We could avoid numbers based goals and information. We should reward users for taking their time and  "Living Technology Lives", people are always on their phones and rely on it heavily. It has become an assumption that everyone has a smartphone and is online 24/7.
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