SYNAESTHETIC-PROVOCATION TOOLKIT
Keywords: Synaesthesia as Inspiration, Synaesthetic Properties, Ideation, Toolkit, Design
Publication: Lee, C.H, Lockton, D , Stevens, J, Wang, S.J, and Ahn, S.H. (2019). Synaesthetic-Translation Tool: Synaesthesia as an Interactive Material for Ideation, ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2019), Glasgow, UK. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3290607.3312849
Publication: Lee, C.H, Lockton, D , Stevens, J, Wang, S.J, and Ahn, S.H. (2019). Synaesthetic-Translation Tool: Synaesthesia as an Interactive Material for Ideation, ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2019), Glasgow, UK. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3290607.3312849
Synaesthetic-provocation toolkit is developed to encourage and facilitate ideation process for designers. This toolkit uses three tools to help designers to generate novel ideas related to user interactions. In particular, this toolkit supports finding and designing playful interactions within the context of design and HCI.
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Synaesthetic Translation Tool
Synaesthetic translation tool has a total of twenty different cards. People can play with the cards and could speculate through any combination of the selected cards. People can combine the cards randomly or intentionally, from one card to another, to gain creative insights for their idea development.
For example, combining the sound card with the weight card means sound can be translated to weight. Combining the pain card to the energy card means pain can be transformed to energy. This rather interactive component of synaesthetic translation tool gives an engaging experience to people. In total, the initial 20 cards allow people to think and build concepts through around 350 different combinations. Each card can be also interpreted to a different concept, so the touch card can be considered as the idea of tactility, surface, feeling and so on. This ideation deck allows designers to explore various playful interaction methods. The detail study can be found in the publication above. >>> You can download the card |
Synaesthetic Mental Imagery Tools
The synaesthetic mental imagery tool contains five different props. Each prop tries to stimulate and convey sensory information to designers. Unlike the synaesthetic translation tool, these five tools are designed to be used by designers without processing any particular action. For example smell prop (top-left corner) allows people to experience different smells. They can be sniffed, and stimulate their sensory information in order to facilitate their creative dimensions for ideation process.
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