Agnese Caglio

Human actions made tangible: analysing the temporal organization of activities

With designers increasingly moving beyond button pushing and flat-screen interaction towards tangible and embodied interaction, techniques for user studies need to develop as well. While ethnographic video studies and ethnomethod-ological analyses are becoming standard in many interaction design projects, it remains a challenge to investigate in detail how people interact with all of their body. Analysis of full-body movement is time consuming, notation techniques are rare, and findings are difficult to share between members of a design team. In this paper we propose tangible video analysis, a method developed to engage people from different backgrounds in collaboratively analysing videos with the help of physical objects. We will present one of these tools, Action Scrabble, for analysing temporal organisation of human actions. We work with a case of skilled forklift truck driving. By backtracking our design research experiments, we will unfold how and why the tangible tool succeeds in engaging designers with varied analysis experience to collaboratively focus on human action structures -- and even find video analysis fun!

Let's play!: designing for preschool children

This paper presents the ongoing work of the Preschool Front End team at LEGO and its approach towards a more inclusive and participatory process when designing the future of play for preschoolers. The team is concerned with front-end innovation for play experiences aimed at children aged 1.5 to 5 years old. The aim of the team is to provide inspiration and sparring to other internal design units and develop innovation in play, having children and parents at the center.