Cultural probes and the value of uncertainty

By William W. Gaver, Andrew Boucher, Sarah Pennington, Brendan Walker. INTR, 2004

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Contextmapping: experiences from practice (2005, neutral): “introduced the Cultural Probes technique (Gaver et al. 1999).”
How HCI interprets the probes (2007, background): “Probes were initially developed by a group of designers led by Bill Gaver [16,17,18,19] as part of the EU Presence Project, which explored how to better integrate older participants into the everyday life of their communities.”
"I always assumed that I wasn't really that close to [her]": Reasoning about Invisible Algorithms in News Feeds (2015, background): “Designers develop new ideas by enacting probes that reveal interactions with hidden and uncertain aspects of people’s lives [14].”
Empathy and experience in HCI (2008, background): “Influenced by artistic practice and with a commitment to “the artist-designer approach” [27] the empathic response of Cultural Probes is best seen, not by focusing on the probes and activity around them alone, but in terms of the lifespan of a design project from first contact with users, through pr”
Mediating intimacy: designing technologies to support strong-tie relationships (2005, background): “The probe data was naturally incomplete, unclear and biased [9].”