Posts Tagged ‘text messaging’

Instruments: SMS your opinion, instant gratification and playful illustration

Tuesday, December 23rd, 2008

weerberichtAs a low-threshold instrument to gather feedback and stimulate a team to reflect on their working practices, we ask them to send us their opinion by SMS. For instance, in order to stimulate reflection on the effectiveness of their meetings, we place little cards in their meeting room with: “How effective was the meeting you just had?”. (more…)

Communication is good, CommUnification is better

Wednesday, December 10th, 2008

CommUnification is a design concept conceived to address the In Sync and In Touch challenges faced by nomadic and highly mobile workers.

The project is an initiative by five User-System Interaction students at the Eindhoven University of Technology: Wil Rijnen, Brian Pagán, Ying Li, Zhihui Zhang, and Natalia Gredina. It is based on interview findings that nomadic and highly mobile workers are challenged by such problems as communication fragmentation (across multiple channels) and disregard for time zone differences. (more…)