TY - GEN

T1 - Going more public: situated display design in a care setting through co-realisation

AU - Graham, Connor

AU - Cheverst, Keith

AU - Rouncefield, Mark

AU - Kray, Christian

PY - 2005

Y1 - 2005

N2 - We describe findings from field work at a residential community care facility for ex-psychiatric hospital patients. The field work focused on distributed care-workers who looked after residents at the two sites forming the facility. We reflect on the process of co-realisation that verified our understanding of the setting and generated initial technology designs. This involved sharing scenarios descriptive of typical activity with care workers and presenting a demonstration of networked public display technology in use. We then illustrate how co-realisation both refined our understanding of care workers' work needs and informed us about how and where public display technology could be deployed. Finally, we present an initial design for a public display.

AB - We describe findings from field work at a residential community care facility for ex-psychiatric hospital patients. The field work focused on distributed care-workers who looked after residents at the two sites forming the facility. We reflect on the process of co-realisation that verified our understanding of the setting and generated initial technology designs. This involved sharing scenarios descriptive of typical activity with care workers and presenting a demonstration of networked public display technology in use. We then illustrate how co-realisation both refined our understanding of care workers' work needs and informed us about how and where public display technology could be deployed. Finally, we present an initial design for a public display.

M3 - Conference contribution/Paper

SN - 1-59593-250-X

SP - 18

BT - DUX '05: Proceedings of the 2005 conference on Designing for User eXperience

PB - AIGA: American Institute of Graphic Arts

CY - New York

ER -