Interviewing and vibrating toys

We did some talks this week, to learn the technique of open-ended interviews. It was harder than expected. Even if i did a lot of interviewing in the projects I was involved - this time it was different. Maybe it was because there was no clear 'goal' like you have in a practical research? But exactly that led to very interesting results after three sessions. Next week we will continue with writing a portrait of the interviewed person.

My interviewee was Daniel. If you want to see what this super nice box is about, see his homepage.

The ping pong challenge with Ben Hopson

                         

To warm up and get started we had a nice workshop led by Ben Hopson ( check out his website! )

The aim was to get a ping pong ball from one table (height 75cm) to another tabler (75cm) - but it needed to go under a wire wich was in between the two tables in the height of 50cm.

See the results here:

Masterplan

We had the first meeting with our program coordinator, Niklas...

That's the plan: 4 weeks of skills and methods, followed by 4 weeks of graphic design, followed by a ccoperational project with the police: police com central - sounds promising!

ClipArts are not dead!

We had a introduction to the library up at  the main campus ( the designers, architects and fine artists are situated at the arts campus, closer to the city center down by the river ). Please pay special attention to the great MS PowerPoint clipart graphics.

Sightseeing

Today we had a trip around the city organized by UID. Some nice spots around here, even if we did not really see the surrounding area.