This slide talks about the theme for Designing Interactions with Electronic course at Media Lab Helsinki this year. The playfulness can happen in the interaction with objects. To make an everyday object playful, you need to observe and understand its usage in sequences and then think how to modify it to let people experience such a fun. During the introduction, several examples was showed to the students. The most important thing to learn from this course is to “communicate design through prototypes”. The playfulness is such a subjective topic which you need to illustrate expected experience in some format. One of the most valuable ways to do that is to prototype the experience.

1. Designing Interactions with electronic
2012 Spring

2. About Me
Michihito Mizutani
Japanese
No engineering education but art and design educations like you
Background as an architect
Senior User Experience Designer | Nokia Design

3. My role in this course
Introduce design thinking culture in business and
technology contexts while prototyping

4. Communicate design with prototypes
The most important thing to learn in this course

5. Thus we show our works in public
Present it at Demoday in May otherwise no credit!

6. This is how we work
We develop projects in groups
Document project and share online
Individual work hours expected

7. We develop projects in groups
Multidisciplinarity

8. Document project and share online
Share knowledge and experiences.

9. Individual hours expected
Mondays is to learn skills

10. Time to introduce yourself

11. Schedule
16.01: Introduction
23.01: Programming basics
30.01: Assignment 1 presentations
13.02: Arduino basics
20.02: Arduino IO control (sensors and actuators)
27.02: Arduino connected to PC
12.03: Android Processing
19.03: Assignment 2 presentations
26.03: Media Factory Fab Lab tour
02.04: Printing circuit board
16.04: Assignment 3 Demos in progress
23.04: Group work / lecture
07.05: Group work / lecture
xx.05: Final demo: Demoday

12. The first assignment
Pick one everyday object or space.
Sketch an idea how to change it to playful.
Present them on 30.1.

13. The second assignment
Create a simple interaction developed by Arduino
and Android.

14. The third assignment
Develop your group work based on the theme.
Demonstrate work in progress. This leads to the
final project.

15. Credits
You can earn 3 credits in this course. 2 extra credits can be arranged if you
develop your final project further after the Demoday.
You will also receive grades according to the new Aalto university system. Your
achievement will be graded between 0 and 5. You will get grade 5 if you
complete and deliver an excellent quality on the following criteria:
- The completions of all three assignments.
- Demonstration of the final project at the Demoday in May.

16. Final demos in previous courses

17. Create an account on mlab.taik.fi/paja
Put your first name and last name in your profile
Login > Users > Your profile

18. Theme for the final project for
Making an everyday object Playful

19. Playfulness can happen in the
interaction with objects.
Everyday object has stories when it is used.
Observe people to find them.

22. The theme is very subjective.
There is an infinite number of
playfulnesses in this world.
What is yours?

23. One successful prototype can tell
people what is your playfulness.

24. The World’s
Deepest Bin

25. Google let it snow

27. Human instrument

29. Clocky

30. Plable

31. // This is a simple code
int count = 0;
void setup(){
size(200, 200);
background(50);
}
void draw(){
if (count < 5){
println("Not yet...");
} else if (count == 10){
println("You got it!");
}
count++;
}

32. Programming basics
http://www.codecademy.com/