Making Toys 6

3/24 User Feedback on Final Prototypes

1)
Show your integrated prototypes, look & feel, and role prototypes to others (preferably your ideal users) and get user feedback. Do 4-5 hours of this user-testing and user-feedback.  Record and blog the results.

2)
Make any changes or additions to any of your prototypes or sketches, so as to better communicate the concept embedded in the prototype to your users. 

Reading / Podcast:

1)    Audio: Role of Anthropologist

2)    Malcolm Gladwell on Human Nature
http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/shows/detail230.html

Assignment for 3/10

1)
Illustrate 2-3 users. Give them a name and a description. Explain why, what, and how they use your artifact and design.  Explain what role it plays in their life. Post this to the blog.


Reading / Podcast:
1)
What do prototype prototype
download Prototypes.pdf
2)
Tom Kelly:
http://ecorner.stanford.edu/authorMaterialInfo.html?mid=2054
3)
Talks  Caleb Chung: Come play with Pleo the dinosaur
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/caleb_chung_plays_with_pleo.html
4)
Audio: Experimenter Chap2.m4a

Toy Fair

http://www.toyassociation.org/AM/Template.cfm?Section=Toy_Fair&Template=/CM/HTMLDisplay.cfm&ContentID=4986

	TOY FAIR 2009® February 15 - 18 Jacob K. Javits Convention Center New York, NY

	Show Dates/Hours
	Sunday, February 15	10:00 am – 6:00pm
	Monday, February 16	9:00 am – 6:00 pm
	Tuesday, February 17	9:00 am – 6:00 pm
	Wednesday, February 18	9:00 am – 4:00 pm

Assignment for 2/27/08

Order:
Code

Read:
THE COMING AGE OF CALM TECHNOLOGY
http://www.johnseelybrown.com/calmtech.pdf
or
http://nano.xerox.com/hypertext/weiser/acmfuture2endnote.htm

Read:
http://arduino.cc/en/Guide/Introduction