Category Archives: Work in progress

Feeler co-design workshop with foreign exchange students

A third Feeler co-design workshop was organized among Kyushu university foreign exchange students. In this occasion, the main aim was to identify differences with Asian participants of previous Feeler workshops dealing with ICT use, as well as in the type … Continue reading

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Feeler co-design workshop with Kyushu University students

A second co-design workshop was organized as part of Feeler design research with students of Kyushu University Design School. Similarly to previous workshop, organized with the support of professor Yasukuyi Hirai and the Inclusive Design lab members, the session aimed … Continue reading

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Square1 software / hardware prototype testing in a school

More photos from the workshop. Couple of weeks ago, we held the first workshop with students for the Square1 software / harware prototype. The objective of the workshop was to explore how the Square1 prototype may support self-organized and collaborative … Continue reading

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Feeler workshop

As part of the contextual inquiry of Feeler’s prototype design, a participatory workshop was held with MA students of the School of Arts, Design and Architecture. Feeler is a design-in-progress tool for visualizing of learning performance and well-being with the … Continue reading

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LEAD progress

In the last couple of months the LEAD project’s university research partners have been focusing on case studies, additional participatory design sessions and development of new prototypes. The research group of at the University of Tampere (UTA) has continued with … Continue reading

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The Backchannel Study and few notes on experiments

The school is over, and so is the extensive studies (5 classes, total of circa 75 students) conducted in Hämeenlinna have come to end. The idea was that the classes used a hacked version of a backchannel tool where we … Continue reading

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Emergent design with iPads and 3D printers

What do you get when you take 40 2nd grade students, show them a 3D printer in action, give them 10 iPads, a 3D modeling app, a theme, and 1 hour?

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LEAD @ ITK 2013

Interaktiivinen tekniikka koulutuksessa (ITK, Interactive Technology in Education, ITE) -conference is the largest conference in Finland related to information and communication technology in educational use, and this year takes place 10-12.4. in Hämeenlinna. LEAD participants are actively present in the conference, presenting … Continue reading

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Oakland school visit

To further develop the Square1 set of single task dedicated devices in close collaboration with teachers and learners, connections to public schools in the Bay Area were established through the after school mentoring program techGyrls organized by the YWCA Berkeley/Oakland, an NGO that organizes classes … Continue reading

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Square1 cardboard prototype

The Square1 is the concept of a set of single tasks dedicated devices for collaborative and cooperative learning, such as a self-organized learning environment, in school. The ideas is that students and teachers will be able to assemble the devices together … Continue reading

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