bubblestorm - interactive brainstorming

BubbleStormFrancesco Bonadiman

Craig Kershaw

Advanced Design and Evaluation of Interactive SystemsDesign Project in Human-Computer Interaction

Thursday, 17.04.2014

Design Problem /1

1/10

“You need to do it on a whiteboard, with

post-its and take a photo afterwards…”

Design Problem /1

“You need to do it on a whiteboard, with

post-its and take a photo afterwards…”

Is that all? → Of course NOT!

2/10

Design Problem /1

● A problem we face several times

● Interviews about last Brainstorming

● Videos of Brainstorm sessions analysed

2/10

“You need to do it on a whiteboard, with

post-its and take a photo afterwards…”

Is that all? → Of course NOT!

Design Problem /2

List of effective problems:

IDEAS TIME PROCESS

Duplication of ideas Fixation on an idea Orientation of the surface

Forgetting ideas Time checking Size of the writings

Frustration to get ideas Taking turn The scribe misunderstands

Difficulty to explain Overtalking Language of the writings

3/10

“An expert or beginner to brainstorming and the design

process requiring the aid of an interactive system.”

User Profile

4/10

“An expert or beginner to brainstorming and the design

process requiring the aid of an interactive system.”

Our personas:

1. Rachel, 32 → Brainstorms a lot for her research

2. Fabio, 22 → Just brainstormed by himself

3. Hagai, 48 → Never brainstormed before, doesn’t enjoy ideation

User Profile

4/10

Design Concept

● Focus on the concept of object

● Identify object with bubble

5/10

Design Concept

● Focus on the concept of object

● Identify object with bubble

“BubbleStorm allows brainstorming techniques to be taught and used easily through creating objects (bubbles) from ideas so they can be manipulated, reused or popped!”

5/10

Video-Prototype

6/10

6/10

Final Design

● Object auto-creation (Rhythms & routines)

● Zooming as “enlarging the bubble” (Co-adaptation)

● Menu in the middle (Peripheral awareness)

● Multitouch + possible scribe (Situated Action)

● Extend function (Distributed cognition)

● Storing added (Co-adaptation)

7/10

Alternatives

● Pen interaction

● Flip the table

● Spatial creation of the objects

● Pile for ordering

● Web searches

● Timeline

● Audio/video recording

8/10

Justifications

● No easy way to save and re-use ideas!

● Vital for research, industry, schools

● Interactive table and touch devices

markets are expanding

9/10

Justifications

● No easy way to save and re-use ideas!

● Vital for research, industry, schools

● Interactive table and touch devices

markets are expanding

● Multiple scribes → Freedom to generate

● Great setting → Better ideas

● Future work → Real-time sharing9/10

Implementation

10/10

Merci beaucoup!

10/10