Data-probe 19

24 May 2024 (WS3)

Mendrisio (CH)

Participant 19

Interaction designer at the time of the workshop, she was a SUPSI MA of Interaction design student. She suffered from UTIs several time in her life.

urine

nausea

fatigue

complexity

Written description:

Not provided

Picture of the probe:

Base Image Discomfort Overlay Nausea Overlay Urine Overlay

List of components:

3 big triangular prisms of wood;
2 small triangular prisms of wood;
2 big spheres of polyester;
2 big triangular prisms of foam

Oral description:

“I was chosing a shape more like where most of it is, like on the bottom because the… I, yeah, for the fact to one thing to lie, lie down and also those to make it to represent the sharpness because it's like burning sensation when peeing. And also then those [polyester spheres] are for like, nausea and it's a lighter material than the one on the bottom then those [foam triangular prisms] are for more tiredness and to link to… to want to lie down. And yeah, also uh, yeah, it's all kind of messy in the middle and that's to represent that something is going wrong and… yeah”