Designing with the Senses

  • Define purpose
    • Who is this for?
    • What is the thesis, theme or parti?
    • How can the user experience this thesis, etc.? (Lupton, The Senses, Pages 25-26)
    • What could be used to provide the thesis, etc.?
  • Define senses
    • Do not start with the visual
      • The visual is too heavily used in design
      • Design the visual as the last sense to interact with
    • Use the information for only one sense and use different information for the other senses–do not mimic one sense design in another sense (Lupton, The Senses, Pages 25-26)
    • Define whether each sense experience is active (using technology) or passive (using materials and objects that are not electronic or electrical)
    • Can the sensory design make the intangible perceptible? (MLL, Adaptive Sensory Environments, Page 30)
    • If Sense Experience is Passive, what is the object/material? How?
    • How to document the sensory experience
        • Preliminary and Schematic Design
          • Text and Annotations
          • Heat Map Diagram
        • Design Documentation and Contract Documents
          • Tags and Annotations
          • Schedules
          • Details
    • If Sense Experience is Active, go to next section
  • Determine active sense experiences
    • How many?
    • Which Senses?
    • How to use the senses?
      • What is the desired output?
      • What information is being used as an input?
      • How are the input and output related?
        • Conditional Statement
        • Binary Mapping
        • One-to-one
          • Direct
          • Indirect
        • Threshold
        • Multiple Thresholds
      • How to document the sensory experience
        • Preliminary and Schematic Design
          • Text and Annotations
          • Heat Map Diagram
        • Design Documentation and Contract Documents
          • Tags and Annotations
          • Schedules
          • Details, Diagrams, and Bill of Materials
      • What is the hardware to be used for input, processing, and output?
        • Description of microcontroller
        • Description of Arduino microcontroller
          • Board/hardware
          • Software
          • Sketch
        • Description and direction to sensors
        • Description and direction of actuators
        • Direction to Arduino sketch examples
    • Test and Evaluate
    • Make Changes as Needed and Retest

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