Gray
Bodystorming in three easy steps: 1. Go to the location and “blend†2. Role play using found props 3. Reflect (that last one is kind of implied for all brainstorming exercises.)
Fulton and Buchenau
Experience prototyping offers users an active exercise to experience the role of and sensory experience of a product through a prototype, allowing for an integrated experience. Damn, just realized I’ve read this one before too… I love the study of the chest-implanted automatic defibrillators, where the designers needed to know about patient’s anxiety of possibly having to get a shock at any time, like while driving or holding a child. Ideas need to be tested in an environment where testers can manipulate their physical space and role play; it saves time and money. There is great value in low-tech prototypes and found materials, to aid in exploring complex systems and products.
Oulasvirta, Kurvinen, and Kankainen
Body storming in the wild to introduce unfamiliar concepts to users in a natural environment: this works with ubiquitous computing projects where interface is supposed to disappear and seem ‘natural.’ Documentation is easily misunderstood and doesn’t take into account any contextualization, but mental models can be built quickly and easily with bodystorming in the right environment, where affordances can be easily surmised. Providing a scenario, motivation card, or question for participants to consider in the natural space. The biggest drawback seems to be that participants may not take to acting, but the rewards far outweigh that concern.
Anderson and McGonigal
Place storming, omg is this getting ridic yet? Sometimes contexts can be confusing for users, especially in the dynamic world of technology. Emphasis on games and play to test an idea or product. In their case study, the tools remained the same but the locations changed, so the applications changed based on place. The prototypes took on new imagined functions as they occurred to the testers in live play. Also, teams were helpful in organizing the groups into a common goal with camaraderie.