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Winter Quarter 2008 Course
Announcement:
with Professor Drew
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Tuesday, February 5th
Abstract: A trip to Europe can be a challenge for a person with a significant mobility impairment. Challenges can come from both attitudes and the environment. A few of the lessons I learned from my trip to Austria in the summer of 2007 will be discussed. Biosketch: Teri Adams is the Assistant Director of the Office of Accessible Education and the Student Disability Resource Center. The Center is committed to providing Stanford students with disabilities the support and services needed to allow them the opportunity to participate in the rich and varied life at Stanford University. In addition to academic accommodations for students, Teri also expedites all housing assignments and facilities requests related to disability.
Abstract: We will present a case study of a recent ergonomic cookware project to illustrate Needfinding, an ethnographic field research method used in the Stanford design process. We plan on covering the following topics: selection of extreme users (in this case one-handed cooks), observation / interview techniques, detailed analysis of user behavior and needs, prototyping of product ideas, and lastly user testing of prototypes. Biosketches: Jean Hsu is a second year in the Joint Program in Design and will receive her MS in Product Design this Spring. Her background is in electrical engineering, with an MS from the University of Texas at Austin and industry experience at developing laser-based debug tools at Intel. Currently, she does needfinding and design research for Google and Eazo, a PC startup in China. Emilie Fetscher is also a second year in the JPD, receiving an MS in Product Design as well. Her background is in mechanical engineering from Dartmouth College and extensive experience in the outdoor industry. She most recently worked at Black Diamond where she introduced needfinding into her position as a designer in R&D. Both Jean and Emilie were exposed to needfinding at Stanford and took particular interest in this approach to design. Together they worked on a project to understand the needs of one-handed cooks and subsequently designed new cookware to meet the latent needs of any home chef.
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