Theme 5

Read the following paper. Reflect on the key points and what you learnt by reading the text. Prepare one question that you would like to discuss during the lecture.

• Fernaeus, Y. & Jacobsson, M. (2009). Comics, Robots, Fashion and Programming: outlining the concept of actDresses. In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Tangible and Embedded Interaction. New York: ACM. 

Read the following paper, written by Haibo Li with colleagues. Select and reflect on a couple of the following questions below.

• Réhman, S., Sun, J., Liu, L., & Li, H. (2008). Turn Your Mobile Into the Ball: Rendering Live Football Game Using Vibration. IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, 10(6), 1022-1033.

1. How can media technologies be evaluated?
2. What role will prototypes play in research?
3. Why could it be necessary to develop a proof of concept prototype?
4. What are characteristics and limitations of prototypes?
5. How can design research be communicated/presented?

Publish your reflections before and after the theme is completed in you individual learning portfolio (blog). See the course guide for further instructions.