#crit 1

On Wednesday the 26th I met up with my group to share our sketches with each other. I feel like we worked very efficiently and came up with good questions to probe both based on our sketches and our common interest and take on this assignment. Karin had done some basic research and shared her insights with the group, which was based a lot upon “Components of Laswell’s Model”

We then moved on to showing each other our sketches and explaining them. This was very valuable for opening up the perspective of our chosen topic and to see more than just your own ideas and sketches. Seeing the other sketches spawned new ideas of mine, which felt like we were on the right track towards our goal.

After getting to know each others sketches we started to see some patterns and we realized that we wanted to work with some visions more than others. We pointed out some key words that connected our sketches, which were:

Communication

Co-operation

Conveyance of feelings, Intimacy in interactions

De-stress notifications

Assurance

Doing this made it easier for all of us to see which direction we were headed and make sure that we are all on the same page. I had never done this before, but thought it was a good idea which I will continue with when I get the chance. By laying it out clearly with words you can easily get an overview of what’s going on and what we’re working towards.

We then moved on to Key Questions to Probe where we made bullet points of the questions we wanted to know more about going forward into this. In this question list we also connected our sketches as a means to “how to” probe this/these questions. The list looks like this:

What notifications cause stress, and why does notifications cause stress?

Maybe we can use this sketch to make prototypes from:

Question: would this type of assurance relieve notification stress?

Another sketch where we can try to test out more ways to relieve stress from notifications with physical “notifications”.

What do people want to get out of family communication?

How often do families communicate serious stuff?

How often do they want to but feel like they can’t?

Why do they feel like they can’t?

Maybe we can move towards an understanding of these questions with this kind of prototype?

We would like to explore efficiency in communication when it comes to practical things - like when it’s time for food.

Extend - communication without having to say something.

Open up - Increasing expressivity

How do we communicate when we are available or not to our family members?

Is there a lack of ways to do this?

Maybe we can use this sketch to prototype from when probing these questions:

(It is not reasonable to call) (Assisted scheduling)

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one dichotomy i was interested in / thought i was representing but maybe not since it didn’t come up in conversation was the set being the area where the books are organized and where the workers are expected to perform. maybe it was my decision to include relatively few books on set that minimized the book-sorting function of the whole apparatus. i am interested in the humor in a group of warehouse workers expected to perform menial sorting tasks as well as perform in a more traditional sense by singing and dancing. i wonder if incorporating the books into the WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS performance / choreography more could have pushed that. maybe we were starting to talk about this when julea brought up labor and the idea of the group relieving each other of labor through working (?) / performing (?) as a group.