Utskrift från Malmö högskola - mah.se
Student Essays / Interaction Design (master)
MUEP
JavaScript is disabled for your browser. Some features of this site may not work without it.
Student Essays / Interaction Design (master)
Recent Submissions
-
Exploring interaction design for counter-narration and agonistic co-d... 
Palmér, Daniel : Malmö högskola/Kultur och samhälle (2012) 1-year master
STUDENT ESSAY
English abstract: This is a documentation of a programmatic design approach, moving through different levels of an established practice of grassroots activism. The text frames an open-ended, exploratory methodology, as four stages of investigation, trying to find possible ways to shape and increase understanding of, and facilitate a process, of co-designing a practice. It presents the experience of looking for opportunities for counter-narration, as contribution to an activist cause, and questioning the role, purpose and approach of a designer in a grassroots activist environment. 
Attachment II.pdf
(11.16Mb)
DanielPalmer_idm-thesis_finalhandin.pdf
(11.39Mb)
-
Hybrid space counter-strategies: Rebalancing our relationships with n...
Romich, Peter : Malmö högskola/Kultur och samhälle (2012) 1-year master
STUDENT ESSAY
English abstract: Our increasing dependency on the internet has had a significant social, behavioural and psychological impact on us all, and not entirely positive. Networked technologies provide an endlessly-renewing refuge of digital information from the uncertainties of life in the physical world, a potentially addictive and ultimately unfulfilling emotional sanctuary. A compulsive craving for constant connectivity has been normalized by broader trends in public life, including a celebration of hypermediated workaholism, unsustainable consumerism, and a corporatist agenda for commodifying personal data and social conformity. Habitual use of networked digital media is crucial in order to socially and professionally thrive in contemporary society, so exposure cannot be completely curtailed and must be voluntarily monitored and managed at a personal level. Informed by an analysis of related socio-theoretical phenomena and historical counter-strategies, as well as expert interviews and interaction design theory, we explore how this could potentially happen through re-sensitizing the ‘smartness’ and ‘responsiveness’ of the technology itself, to appropriately curb its own misuse. These issues are addressed by a design concept developed through two artifacts: the first, a web-based application; and the second, a semi-functional technology probe and conjectural video prototype. Design is enlisted to explore how rethinking the implementation of digital experiences could potentially re- empower an individual to achieve a temporary liberation from (or at least an increased self-awareness of) their splintered psychological predicament, in the hopes of ultimately guiding them towards a healthier, more balanced relationship with networked media technologies.
romich_thesis.pdf
(3.558Mb)
-
Supporting Interaction Designers through the Accomplishment Support T...
Cotoranu, Alexandru : Malmö högskola/Kultur och samhälle (2012) 2-year master
STUDENT ESSAY
English abstract: This thesis paper addresses a problem of motivation that interaction designers experience when managing multiple design processes while keeping track of many design considerations. Once this issue is described at length, the paper focuses towards a possible solution in the form of a hybrid between creativity and productivity support tools: an accomplishment support tool. This tool is meant to support interaction designers in their experience with managing multiple processes. This paper does not suggest that interaction design is the only profession that suffers from the motivation issue that is described, nor does it deny that other professions could benefit from the use of such a tool. The paper merely attempts to narrow the issue down to one profession so that it may be addressed within the limits of the thesis project. The paper explores the need for such a tool by inspecting and analyzing current methods and digital applications used by interaction designers and mentions how this need is addressed with solutions based on relevant theories from diverse areas of interest. As defining qualities emerge from a combination of theoretical and practical research, case studies are described from a preparation perspective and then as experienced by workshop participants and interviewees. The case studies (which include workshops and prototype modules) are then reflected upon and discussed in terms of their impact on the overall goals of the thesis project. A final prototype in the form of a web application, IxD Companion, is then described through scenarios of use and assessed in the conclusion. Suggestion to future work on accomplishment support tools such as IxD Companion, as well as others, is provided at the end. -
Designing technologies for unproductive citizens
Galán Nieto, Sergio Manuel : Malmö högskola/Kultur och samhälle (2012) 2-year master
STUDENT ESSAY
English abstract: This is a project to design digital technologies to promote uses of public spaces challenging the social religion of productivism + consumerism. Instead I celebrate participative leisure, free time, political involvement and social relationships. Digital artefacts for what I'm calling the "unproductive city". The goal is to incorporate a different set of values where the “paid work” is not as relevant in our life as it is today. The project is focused on life in cities and works with the integration of computing technologies into everyday urban settings and lifestyles. What it is called “urban informatics”. Participative processes as well as user center design have guided the design. It comprehends different services and activities: A collaborative urban jukebox, exercises with locative media, participative design as a leisure activity, technological infrastructures for meetings and game design for public spaces These activities are examples and explorations to find future challenges and different ways to design technologies for the unproductive city.
UnproductiveCities-final_report.pdf
(23.36Mb)
-
Iconic Search: Visual Image Retrieval by Sample Selection
Bouhendi, Nafiseh : Malmö högskola/Kultur och samhälle (2012) 2-year master
STUDENT ESSAY
English abstract: The considerable growth of digital images online in recent years has shifted users’ concern from whether or not an image is available to how to find a specific image in a sea of online imagery. Image Search Engines cannot satisfy every user, especially users that require specific images with more details. Furthermore, the variety and quantity of available images do not add value for users if they cannot find what they require in an appropriate timeframe. Therefore, an Image Retrieval is required that lets users define detailed search perimeters and find images that match their requirements. This thesis focuses on providing better communication and interaction between users and Image Search Engines. The work presented here aims to let users describe their requirements visually and make approximations of the images that they require by setting perimeters like color, scale and position. This approximation can help in retrieving more appropriate images which more closely match users’ needs. This thesis also proposes to involve users first in improving the Image Search Engine database by uploading their photographs and images, and second in helping other users that are not satisfied with search results, by sending an image as response to their request. To achieve this goal, the thesis applied two methodologies, Research through Design and User Centered Design. These methodologies allowed considering future possibilities and users’ requirements. The communication with users provided by low-fidelity and high-fidelity prototypes as sketches, that were used in workshops and helped in framing the concept and improving different aspects of it.
Search
Browse
My Account
Statistics
Discover
-
Author
-
Date Issued
-
Subject Words