REFLECTION

1. The money earning exercise; what are its outcomes?
Ans. The money earning exercise gave us an outlook as to how you start a business from scratch and make it progress through your own skill to create new and improved ideas. This particular exercise was also made us think spontaneously to come up with something quick which made us reject several ideas that we normally would have chosen.

2. What other similar exercises can be created?
Ans.Similar exercises can be included in military exercises where one is taught to think on a spontaneous ground on an onset or during a war .
It can also be used in paramedic training where one has to work as part of a emergency medical service provision in a given area.

3. What kind of research tool is role play?
Ans.Similar exercises can be included in military exercises where one is taught to think on a spontaneous ground on an onset or during a war .
It can also be used in paramedic training where one has to work as part of a emergency medical service provision in a given area.

4. What are its advantages over plain interviews.?
Ans. Role play emphasis the 'real world'. It challenges to deal with complex problems and to use a variety of skills beyond those employed in a typical research project. Role playing presents the student a valuable oppoturnity to learn not just the course content, but the other perspectives on it.

5. What is ergonomics?
Ans. Ergonomics is the science of designing the job, equipment, and workplace to fit the worker. It is all about designing things to suit their users. The design could be on a physical level, like making sure a chair, knife or shovel is easy to use for the task intended, or it could be on a psychological level, like making sure a computer program or instrument panel is easy to understand.

6. How is it a research tool?
Ans. Ergonomics takes account of the worker's capabilities and limitations in seeking to ensure that tasks, equipment, information and the environment suit each worker.

7. What kind of user understanding does ergonomics provide?
Ans.User understanding can help us as designers to look at a 'global requirement' of people which would help us better to fulfill consumer goals of health and productivity.

8. What is a scenario or persona, what are the advantages of creating them?
Ans.Personas are fictional characters created to represent the different user types within a targeted attitude and behaviour set. They are tools or methods for market segmentation. Personas are useful in considering the goals, desires, and limitations of brand buyers and users in order to help to guide decisions about a service.

9. What are the advantages of a matrix as a research tool?
Ans.The matrix is a search tool which looks into different aspects of a product to know dis/likes of the people on a whole.The good way to do such analysis is buy asking several shop owners selling that particular product.

10. How can it also work as a design tool?
Ans. By looking at the different aspects of the specific product specific product, designers can focus better on the wants of the people on the whole resulting in consumer satisfaction. It can also be useful in better Ergonomics.

11. Give two examples of second level understandings from Marasandra village based on your own reflective judgement.
Ans.To my surprise the villages on route were an example of the new developing india - equipt with satellite television and various other facilities such as grocery shops stocked with common commercial products which are easily available to us in our cities.

12. Give two examples of design interventions that you can do based on this 2 weeks of research.
Ans.Two weeks of this course has broadened my mind to understanding better as to how the business in this world is run and how creative and tactical one has to be to survive and excel.
Through my experience with the tribes i would like to bring out the uniqueness of their craft and style by incorporating them into various design interventions which will be commercially viable. i would be keen to experiment them into contermorary pieces of art or design.
As a student of the arts - it was an interesting journey for me to understand the simplicity of creation through natural materials - I would like to take this forward by creating a television serial to bring out and educate masses about various techniques used by these tribes to create. The interesting fact being how neglected these techniques are - being enviroment friendly and easy to make without any commercial exposure.