• DOI:10.1145/642611.642616
• Corpus ID: 1356747

Technology probes: inspiring design for and with families

@inproceedings{Hutchinson2003TechnologyPI,
  title={Technology probes: inspiring design for and with families},
  author={Hilary Browne Hutchinson and Wendy E. Mackay and Bo Westerlund and Benjamin B. Bederson and Allison Druin and Catherine Plaisant and Michel Beaudouin-Lafon and St{\'e}phane Conversy and Helen Evans and Heiko Hansen and Nicolas Roussel and Bj{\"o}rn Eiderb{\"a}ck},
  booktitle={CHI '03},
  year={2003}
}

• H. Hutchinson, W. Mackay, +9 authors B. Eiderbäck
• Published in CHI '03 5 April 2003
• Computer Science

We describe a new method for use in the process of co-designing technologies with users called technology probes. Technology probes are simple, flexible, adaptable technologies with three interdisciplinary goals: the social science goal of understanding the needs and desires of users in a real-world setting, the engineering goal of field-testing the technology, and the design goal of inspiring users and researchers to think about new technologies. We present the results of designing and deploying two technology probes, the messageProbe and the videoProbe, with diverse families in France, Sweden, and the U.S. We conclude with our plans for creating new technologies for and with families based on our experiences.