Cultural probes and the value of uncertainty

This paper reports on the challenges faced during the design and deployment of educationally-focused cultural probes with children. The aim of the project was to use cultural probes to discover insights into children's interests and ideas within an ...

Of all displays exhibited at World's Fairs, some of the most iconic centered on habitat or environmental displays that presented groups of figures--live or fake--performing tasks or reenacting historical tableaux. This essay explores the Smithsonian ...

This paper explores the use of probes in a very remote Australian Aboriginal community where the rich traditional and post-colonial culture is worlds away from the urban Australian home of the research team. Cultural probes and technology probes have ...