Slides for week 6 of Intro to Creative Technologies. Auckland University of Technology, April 2019. Dr. Ricardo Sosa. On the difficulties of evaluating early ideas...

1. Introduction to CT: #ctec502
Week 6

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lvMgMrNDlg

6. Class Activity:
Powerful questions

7. Reflective Practice
Planning
How should we do this?
Ideation
What can be done?
Prototype
What works? What doesn’t?
Reflect
Why are we doing this?
Based on Zull, J. (2002) The Art of Changing the Brain. Sterling, VA: Stylus Publishing
Very often we take
these shortcuts

8. Class Activity:
“The Marshmallow Challenge”

12. A descriptive blog post:
“This week we did the Marshmallow Challenge in ICT. It
was fun/boring. My team did this and I did that. I
liked/disliked this and that parts.”
A reflective blog post:
- What we/I/others did, and why…
- What this type of activities mean…
- What it means (to me)…
- How I could do things differently…
- Open questions and issues…
- What is the “marshmallow” (metaphor) in my project?

13. Reflective Practice
Based onKolb, D. A. (1984). Experiential learning: Experience as the source of learning and development(Vol. 1). Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall.

14. https://bookofbadarguments.com/?view=allpages

15. Class Activity:
A paper phone stand
Duration: 10 minutes

21. Class Activity:
Evaluation of ideas

25. “It has become clear that there is a
need for a national regulatory
framework for e-scooters, whether they
be a shared service or privately owned”

26. https://www.yikebike.com/

27. https://www.yikebike.com/

28. The model V is constructed of
hydroformed aluminium and composite
reinforced polymer designed to give you
freedom. The additional option of an
articulated 3 wheel rear axle offers
flexibility and different riding
configurations.
Specifications
• 2 wheel standard (3 wheel accessory
included with all model V)
• compact folding fully electric
• 23kmh maximum speed
• 14km (20km optional) range
• ABS regenerative braking
• 1.5hr charge time
• weight 13.5kg model V (15.4kg for 3
wheel)
• FREE door to door freight
The model C is our prestigious premium
product. Meticulous material preparation
and finishing delivers the ultimate in
bragging rights. High-tech carbon-fibre
construction materials and hand finishing
means there are only a few model C’s
available to the discerning buyer.
Specifications
• compact folding fully electric
• 23kmh maximum speed
• 20km range
• ABS regenerative braking
• 1.5hr charge time
• weight 11.4kg
• Carbon Fiber

30. New Zealand's 'Best Design Awards' major design winners, announced on 1 October 2010 by the Designers Institute of
New Zealand:
• YikeBike Ltd won the Purple Pin (Supreme) award for product design. The ultra light carbon fibre electric YikeBike folds
up into a shoulder bag in under 20 seconds.
https://bestawards.co.nz/product/consumer/yikebike-ltd/yikebike/

31. https://www.yikebike.com/

32. https://www.yikebike.com/

33. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aj3de3_9fvM

34. model C USD$7995model V USD$5495 USD$4995

35. http://minekafon.org/index.php/mine-kafon-ball/

37. http://minekafon.org/index.php/mine-kafon-ball/

38. http://minekafon.org/index.php/mine-kafon-ball/

39. Mine Kafon- Low Cost Land Mine Detonator
Created by: Massoud Hassani
£119,456 pledged of £100,000 goal

40. Here’s a graph showing the percentage of unexploded mines still left versus the
number of Kafons that were released into the minefield. Each point on the graph
represents a new simulation with that many Kafons. As you can see, at first adding
more Kafons gives an almost linear decrease in the percentage of mines left, but the
closer you get to clearing all the mines, the more elusive that goal becomes.
the marginal rate of detection goes down as the number of
attempts goes up
https://statisticsblog.com/2013/01/10/simulation-of-landmine-clearing-with-massoud-hassanis-mine-
kafon/
“It's not suitable for de-mining activities”
Henk van der Slik, head of the Dutch
Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD)
There are also a couple of other obvious
drawbacks…
https://www.pri.org/stories/2012-05-11/using-wind-blown-
mine-kafon-clear-landmines

41. http://minekafon.org/ Mine Kafon began its roots with Massoud Hassani’s “Mine Kafon
Ball” in 2011. The two Afghan brothers Massoud and Mahmud led a campaign to realise
the project as both a legitimate mine clearing device and a global awareness project. With
a huge media impact and success in many multinational competitions, the project helped
inspire new individuals to enter the global discussion around a topic still predominant in
many communities across the world – Land-mine clearance.

42. https://www.red-dot.org/design-concept/

46. http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ZgXCtetOWTg/UEL59d2GIDI/AAAAAAAAD_s/NDJ8E2XZ3KM/s1600/Laughing-Buddha-Gold-Statue-Wallpaper.jpg

48. Questions for a reflective blog post:
- What are the pros/cons of entering a competition?
- Who benefits, how?
- How is the brief or the categories defined?
- Who are the judges?
- How are entries evaluated?
- Why should I enter this competition?
- How else?

49. Get Started with Prototyping:
https://www.interaction-design.org/literature/article/design-thinking-get-started-with-prototyping
Sketching user experiences:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/aut/detail.action?docID=317018