MEET ME HALFWAYKyung Jin Hong

Concept Statement

Meet me halfway

• Users• People who have meetings with others but cannot

decide where to meet

•  Main Function• Recommends places that are fair for every member of

the meeting

• Conclude negotiations• Analyze groups’ information

• Each member’s loacation(GPS)• Purpose of the meeting

• Recommend places(Maximum 3)• Give information of surroundings

• landmarks, popular sites

• Helps to search for wanted facilities

Choose a Place to meet

Functions

• Route Guidance• Analyze each member’s information

• Means of transportation• Shortest time(distance) or Least transfer

• Recommend routes• Give precise direction of the route

• from current location to the destination

Choose a Route• each member’s route demands similar amount of time

Functions

Persona

Cultural Probes

Participants recruiting plan• 6 to 8 people• Of different age, gender, residence, field and personality

• How• Search around people near me• Ask other people when more people are needed

Probing Package design

• Subway line map + Stickers• Camera + Facebook• Bottle with little papers• USB

• with song ‘Meet me halfway’ by Black Eyed Peas

Subway line map + Stickers

• Mark specific places on the map with stickers• Location of you, your friends and people you meet often• The first place you met your friends• Places you and your friends usually gather• Places with special memory

• Places you usually meet people• Places you prefer to meet people

Camera + SNS

• Take pictures with your smartphone camera and upload it on SNS, with brief comments• Friends and people you meet often• Where you met your friends• Places with special memory• Places you usually meet people• Places you prefer to meet people

• Then send a your SNS address to me

Message in bottle

• Messages with questions inside a bottle• Where do you usually meet people? Why?• Where do you prefer to meet people? Why?• Who do you usually meet? Why?• Who do you like to meet? Why?• What do you consider when choosing places to meet?• Do you argue with people while planning meetings? Why?

USB

• ‘Meet me Halfway’ by Black Eyed Peas• Listen to the music while going through the probe

• Save notes of any kind of comment inside

Scenario• Each participants receive a package• Go home and open the package• Follow the instructions

• Open the music file in the USB and turn on the music• Open the map and start checking locations• Do what ever you planned, when you have a meeting take a camera(or

mobile-phone), take pictures (members, place etc), and up load on SNS with brief explanation

• Open the bottle, unroll the paper and check the questions, then write opin-ions.

• Write comments and save it in the USB• Send the package back to me

Context mapping

Sketch

Sketch

Preparation

• Participants• Age

• 10’s ~ 50’s

• Gender• Job

• Diverse areas

• Residence• Personality

• External or Internal

• Room setting• Board• Nametag• Note & pen• Drinks & snacks• Things for the session

• Subway map• Pocket Photo

Sensitization

• Recall Memories• Note

• Think about recent meetings and scribble on note• Members, location, purpose, transportation etc

• Photographs• Go through phone gallery and SNS

Session

• Map• Mark location with stick-

ers on subway map• Location of meetings• Residence of members• Locations one prefers

• Photographs• Find photos of meetings

• With members• Meeting places

• Print the photos• With pocket photo

• Write about the photos• With whom• Where• Why

• Discussion• Talk about the location and photos• Freely discuss about given questions

• How do you choose the locations?• How do you think about the process?• How do you usually get to the location?

Session

Action Time Checklist

Introduction 05 min Tell the participants about session’s goal and feel free to talk

Ice-breaking 20 minSelf-introduction (name, job, anything to say)Short game (ex. Bingo – 3x3, about places I went recently)

Warm up 25 minThink of recent meetings (through photographs)Talk a about on of the meetings

Part 1 05 min Mark locations on the map

Part 2 10 min Print photographs and add any information to it

Part 3 30 minDiscussion

- Talk about the locations & photographs- Talk about the given questions

Wrap up 05 min Opinions about the session

Session

Thank you