Category: Design
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Playing with RFID
For my final Making Furniture Interactive project, I planned to create an ambient door with RFID. But after a week, my enthusiasm for the project began to wane. Because it was a concept for my service class, it felt too practical, and didn’t make me excited to work on it. Also, I had desires to…
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Maggie Breslin Visits Designing for Service
This week Maggie Breslin, a former Carnegie Mellon design grad, visited our Designing for Service class to hear about our University of Pittsburgh Medical Center projects and give a presentation on her service design work for the Sparc Innovation Program at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. She described her role as both understanding and…
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Sensor Detector and Ambient Door
Kipum Lee and I are proposing to create a sensor detector and ambient door location indicator for our Making Furniture Interactive (MFI) class. Kip and I are also working together on a team in another class to bring service design solutions to the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) Neurosurgery Clinic. Our work on that…
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Thesis Paper Abstract v2.0
With the majority of my readings behind me—How Designers Think, The Reflective Practitioner, Thoughtful Interaction Design—I took a stab at rewriting my thesis paper abstract. I wrote the original abstract a few weeks ago, but it was still too abstract for…um…an abstract, so I didn’t share it. The result is a shift, I believe, from…
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Midway Through Design Computing
We’ve hit the midway point in the semester for Design Computing. And I must confess that my first teaching experience had a bit of a rough start. There were a bunch of factors that affected this—planning Emergence, not following last year’s model, Flash C3 being very different from the previous version—but to some extent inexperience…