Posts Tagged ‘experiment’

Rabo Unplugged klantcase: gebruikte methodes

Tuesday, July 7th, 2009

12182008_oostplein_0031Tijdens de Rabo Unplugged klantcase zijn verschillende methoden toegepast. Hieronder staan de verschillende methoden op een rij, om een beeld te geven van onze aanpak.

  • Startmeting. Elke Future Workspaces klantcase begint met een startmeting. Het doel van deze meting is om een ijkpunt vast te stellen: hoe gaan de individuen in het team om met informatie (welke strategieën hanteren ze) en hoe gaan ze om met kennis delen. Verder stelt deze startmeting vast welke typen kenniswerk de teamleden doen en worden persoonlijkheidskenmerken gemeten. Dit laatste is bijvoorbeeld relevant om uitspraken te kunnen doen over de effectiviteit van verschillende strategieën en technologieën voor verschillende typen mensen. Bij wie is de kans groot dat een wiki of een blog aanslaat?
  • Interviews. Aan het begin van de Unplugged klantcase zijn een reeks interviews uitgevoerd met de leden van het Unplugged team. Het doel hierbij was om een beeld te krijgen van de situatie waarin het team zich bevindt, waar quick wins te bereiken zijn en om belangrijke randvoorwaarden voor de interventies boven water te krijgen.
  • Cultural probe. Dit middel heeft als doel om input te verzamelen vanuit het Unplugged team over wat zij op dit moment al echt Unplugged vinden aan hun manier van werken en waar dat nog te wensen overlaat. Bij de cultural probe is een tiental Unplugged medewerkers gevraagd om gedurende een aantal weken foto’s te maken van situaties waarbij ze het gevoel hadden echt Unplugged bezig te zijn, maar ook van situaties die niet bij de Unplugged filosofie passen. Door hiermee bezig te zijn en de resultaten met elkaar te bespreken, begint feitelijk al een interventie.
  • Workshops. We hebben een workshop georganiseerd om de Unplugged leden de resultaten van de cultural probe te laten bespreken en een workshop rond Unplugged samenwerken. Deze workshop diende om ervaringen, tips en trucs rond nieuwe manieren en tools voor samenwerken binnen het team te delen.
  • Inspiratie bieden. Om de Unplugged leden zelf en bezoekers van de Beneluxstaete inspiratie te bieden over de mogelijkheden van innovatieve (virtuele) hulpmiddelen hebben we twee richtingen gevolgd: 1) informeren van de Unplugged leden via e-mail en presentaties, en 2) door concrete prototypes te laten zien op de Werkplaats – de plek waar bezoekers (van binnen en buiten de Rabobank) een kijkje kunnen nemen in de toekomst van Rabo Unplugged.
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Concept Game Online

Monday, July 6th, 2009

Within Future Workspaces, many concept ideas have been developed. The Concept Pool page on this website shows some of them. To inspire knowledge workers and to gain more insight into what concepts or concept areas appeal to them, we have created the Concept Game.

The physical version of the Concept Game can be played individually or in a workshop. It is also possible to play the Concept Game online.

Click here to start playing the Concept Game online. You will be asked to select your favourite and least favourite concept ideas. Please also tell us why you have selected these concepts and submit your choices. It will help us to focus our future plans and concept development.

The online version of the Concept Game was developed by Steven Haveman.

» Start the Concept Game

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Evaluating the touch screen applications

Tuesday, May 19th, 2009

img_7044Today was a day of evaluating the use of some of the applications we created: Buzzcuit and the two applications for the MS Surface table: the concept game and create & combine. These applications are currently all being tested at the Rabobank Utrecht. I sat down with my laptop a bit away from the gadgets, but made sure I could still see what people were doing – especially if they touched the screens.

From there, I recorded how many people approached the touch screens and how many people actually touched them. When I noticed that they were about to leave again, I approached the people and did a brief interview to find out how they used the application and how they felt about it. I also interviewed a few people who entered the room, looked at the touch screens, but did not touch them.

Some of the initial findings:

  • About 40% of the passers-by actually touched the screen of Buzzcuit.
    Many of the people who did not touch the Buzzcuit screen were not aware this was a touch screen.
  • The fact that Buzzcuit is visible from the hallway resulted in extra “traffic” to the room.
  • The option to send yourself mail from Buzzcuit needs some rework – people did not understand how the mail interface worked or expected to be able to send a personalized message.
  • The pawns we used as part of the interaction with the MS Surface table attract attention of passers-by.
  • The MS Surface applications “compete” with a series of non-functioning applications that some of the visitors already know. The fact that new applications are available needs to be advertised.
  • People are inspired by the Combine & Create application as it is one of the first examples of applications that target knowledge workers.

More to come in a few weeks – after a bit more evaluating.

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Evaluating Twitter in our expertise group

Thursday, April 9th, 2009

Exactly two months ago our expertise group started an experiment with Twitter to see how it could facilitate knowledge sharing in between the monthly group meetings, and to see how it could improve social cohesion in the group.

 

Some characteristics of the expertise group

  • 14 researchers with a shared interest in how ICT affects work, life, and society;
  • they are working in the same research institute, but located over various parts of the building;
  • they frequently work elsewhere, for instance during client visits, workshops, conferences;
  • they are all working on several different projects at a time;
  • they are well acquainted with one another, though not co-working on a daily basis;
  • they share a feeling that cohesion and knowledge sharing in the group could be improved. 

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Experimenting with social media in our expertise group

Tuesday, February 10th, 2009

Yesterday we organized a social media workshop for our expertise group –  a group of 16 colleagues with similar research interests. Although we frequently co-operate with one another in various ongoing research projects, and although we meet once a month as a group, we felt that knowledge sharing between group members could be improved. The first aim of the workshop was therefore to introduce and discuss various social media and their potential to facilitate knowledge sharing within the group. (more…)

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Instruments: Living Lab approach

Wednesday, December 24th, 2008

Future Workspaces applies a Living Lab approach in its pilots. This means that, in contrast to traditional research approaches, the experiments are performed at the customer site: employees do not have to come to a lab to experiment with new technologies, the experiment takes place in their normal work setting and as part of their normal work activities. This way, a Living Lab becomes a co-creation environment for human-centric research and innovation. (more…)