Technology Probe Toy Design
// a social wearable prototype designed to augment co-located social interaction of players in the New Gyr LARP (live action role play) game in April 2018 in Marine County, CA.
+ Published in the proceedings of CSCW 2018.
+ Adapted to a commercial product called Purbble.
+ Project Timeline: 3 months.
+ Collaborators: Petr Slvák, Nikki Theofanopoulou, Alessia Cecchet, Peter Cottrell
, Ferran Altarriba Bertran, Ella Dagan, Julian Child, Katherine Isbister, Committee For Children
+ Design Type: Tangible Computational Toy
To design True Colors, we followed a Research-through-Design approach, used experiential qualities and social affordances to guide our process, and co-designed with the LARP designers of Event Horizon.
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