I started to wonder what I should record. Maybe everything I was wondering about? After 5 minutes I was wondering about everything and I decided to bring it down to something more countable.
01. Messages I write/get per day?
02. Speed (bike, car, walking)?
03. How much time do I spend on active or passive German/English/Norwegian? (active = conversations, passive = listening: lectures, tv, etc)
04. What do I eat?
05. Tools I used?
06. Switches/buttons I used – what kind of button?
07. Energy I used
08. money I spent
09. Songs I sang
10. Feeling good moments
Define 10 measurable aspects of your life, and record your observations and measurements of this information for a week. This will involve researching tools and methods for self ethnography, and choosing appropriate measurable aspects of your life (travel, food, social interaction, behaviours etc.) that you would like to examine and analyse. This is a solo task.
A two week project exploring the visual representation of personal data.
self-ethnography is also called auto-ethnography and it is considered valid research for a wide variety of problems. Its focus is on subjectivity and lived experienced, usually told as a first-person narrative. While able to slip into the worst sort of navel-gazing, the best examples of auto-ethnography draw out the kinds of self-awareness, empathy and reflexivity mentioned above.’ Anne Galloway
- “No one who cooks, cooks alone. Even at her most solitary, a cook in the kitchen is surrounded by generations of cooks past, the advice and menus of cooks present, the wisdom of cookbook writers.” Laurie Colwin
- “It’s amazing how pervasive food is. Every second commercial is for food. Every second TV episode takes place around a meal. In the city, you can’t go ten feet without seeing or smelling a restaurant. There are 20 foot high hamburgers up on billboards. I am acutely aware of food, and its omnipresence is astounding.” Adam Scott
- “We are indeed much more than what we eat, but what we eat can nevertheless help us to be much more than what we are.” Adelle Davis
- “The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.” Calvin Trillin
- “He who comes first, eats first.” Eike von Repkow
- “Good food ends with good talk.” Geoffrey Neighor
- “You don’t have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces – just good food from fresh ingredients.” Julia Child
- “It’s the company, not the cooking, that makes a meal.” Kirby Larson
- “As a child my family’s menu consisted of two choices: take it or leave it.” Buddy Hackett
- “Never work before breakfast; if you have to work before breakfast, eat your breakfast first.” Josh Billings
- “We should look for someone to eat and drink with before looking for something to eat and drink…” Epicurus
TASK: Make an analysis of ebay and communicate your findings in the format of a film. Use the opportunity to test out social themes you find engaging, interesting or peculier. Will it be exploratory or explanatory?
Get sensitized to see user experience over stretches of time, tell coherent stories of user experiences and practise communication of user experience.
Astrid designing for screen 