Probes. BOEHNER, K., GAVER, W., & BOUCHER, A. In Inventive Methods. Routledge, 2012. Num Pages: 17
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Probes are a method for developing a richly textured but fragmented understanding of a setting or situation. Developed in a design context, their purpose is not to capture what is so much as to inspire what might be. Because their motivations come from design, Probes embody a different set of sensibilities from most other social research methods. Most fundamentally, they make a virtue of uncertainty and risk, acknowledging and celebrating the idiosyncratic interpretations of designers and participants. They aim to open up possibilities, rather than converging towards singular truths, and can be understood as part of a conversation among designers and the people and places for which they design.
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	title = {Probes},
	isbn = {978-0-203-85492-1},
	abstract = {Probes are a method for developing a richly textured but fragmented
understanding of a setting or situation. Developed in a design context, their
purpose is not to capture what is so much as to inspire what might be. Because
their motivations come from design, Probes embody a different set of
sensibilities from most other social research methods. Most fundamentally,
they make a virtue of uncertainty and risk, acknowledging and celebrating the
idiosyncratic interpretations of designers and participants. They aim to open
up possibilities, rather than converging towards singular truths, and can be
understood as part of a conversation among designers and the people and places
for which they design.},
	booktitle = {Inventive {Methods}},
	publisher = {Routledge},
	author = {BOEHNER, KIRSTEN and GAVER, WILLIAM and BOUCHER, ANDY},
	year = {2012},
	note = {Num Pages: 17},
}

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