Lab+5


 * Research the definition of 'bodystorming', and write three paragraphs describing its characteristics.(3 paragraphs) **

Bodystorming is an extension of participatory design and is often thought to be a form of prototyping in context. Body storming involves physical participation to generate and evaluate ideas rapidly in situational contexts.

In bodystorming, users imagine what it would be like if the product exists and pretend that it actually exist, ideally in the place it would be used. This requires setting up an experience with complete artifacts and people. Not only bodystorming involves formulating better ideas in context of the product's uses; testers also enact entanglements and actions of humans in possible future scenarios. An example would be trying out plane sitting configurations in plane.

The idea is that physically experiencing a situation will help designers generate new ideas and unexpected ideas. Also, since bodystorming engages participation at a physical level, it allows exchanging and expressing of tacit knowledge which gives us more thoughts than we can tell.