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Assistant ProfessorSchool of Interactive Arts + TechnologySimon Fraser UniversitySurrey, BC, Canadawillodom.com/portfolio

‘Designing for Slowness, Anticipation and Re-Visitation:A Long Term Field Study of the Photobox.’

BUT SLOWER, A LOT SLOWER,,,Moves by letter correspondence,

Message yourselfIn the future

Entering,

Entering,

• Prints 4 to 5 photos • Personal flickr• Printed at a random interval• LID COVERS THE PHOTOS

Slows down photo consumption

Creates long term-INTERACTION

Doesn’t react on human input

48yBookstore clerk

42yLibrarian

28-31y2 females and 3 males

35yInsurance salesman

34yLegal clerk

frustrationDisappointment

acceptancePleasureable-anticipationExcitement

‘At firstwe were excited to show it to people and get the photos.Then, it became kind of a drag because, you know, we wantto use it, but we can’t do anything. I’d be walking throughinto the kitchen and be thinking ‘When is the next onecoming?’

‘Then we moved the computer under a couch. …That made it less like a focal point in the dining room. …it became a lot easier to not worry about it but also not forget about it.’

‘Zack: But it’s also not asking youfor anything.’

‘Heather: Yes you’re exactly right and I thinkthat’s one reason why it’s cool. …why I want to keep it.’

‘Heather: That’s probably true! …Overall it’s been aninteresting experience. We’d never be sitting around mytiny laptop laughing about my photos like we did.”’

‘Samuel: It was the best of both worlds. I knew all of themwere backed up [online], but I also had some right here. Ididn’t have to deal with trying to organize them better. Or,even figure out where to start [re-visiting them].”’

‘Samuel: …When we got back [from vacation]. …I opened it up and found three photos, one was of a different trip, [from] back when we first met.

That’s when I felt like I ‘got it.’ It’s going to do its thing,’

Hi Steven,

Thanks for your interest and kind words. I've finished the photobox study, but am still working in the slow/time technology design area. More recent papers are the unaware objects paper (which has photobox in it also),and I have several more recent projects that are in different stages of development related toslow design (most of which are on my website).

I'd like to open source the photobox through an online tutorial/instructable so other people can make and remix the project on their own but just haven't had the time to do it yet. Let me know if you have any more questions.

Cheers,Will

- Laptop underneath - Expensive for multiple simultaneous tests- Small participant base- FLICKR ALTERNATIVES?- No further development- Lacks scoring

+ Easy read & simple+ disruptive & innovative+ experience above performance+ new insights+ long terms deployment effect on experience

+ a solution to the presented problem is proposed and tested out+ Changed my mindset about technologies- Small participant base- long term operations unknown- results not replicated by any other study yet

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