October 2010
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Group notes from interviews at Lawrence Hall of...
  Notes from interviews Overall observations What happens after you put recycling in the trash is VERY abstract — no one knew what happened, especially concerning collection at facility and sorting — some knew that eventually plastic is melted and reused Very few kids had a clear distinction between recycling trash and landfill trash — they saw it as the same thing and didn’t...
Oct 10th
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Group notes from observations at Lawrence Hall of...
Observations at Kapla blocks (rectangular wooden blocks, see below)   NOTE: ages are estimates   2 parents + ~1/2 yo girl + 7/8 yo boy mom built her own simpler tower for girl to knock over girl keeps taking things apart, almost methodically — she keeps knocking things over girl took blocks and ran around boy keeps destroying things and rebuilding boy decided to build DNA (twisty)...
Oct 10th
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Oct 8th
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WatchWatch
The MRF in action
Oct 8th
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Oct 8th
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Toy Story 3 Lego Trash Compactor →
A really good example of a toy with moving parts.
Oct 6th
Cupcakes →
Cake analogy from Brandon Schauer from Adaptive Path. How to we make a cupcake (a small but desirable product) rather than a plain cake?
Oct 4th
September 2010
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“I try to err on the side of if it might be recyclable, I try to recycle it.”
– User needs interview
Sep 29th
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“I have definitely put some questionable plastics in there…I really feel like...”
– User Needs Interview
Sep 29th
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Sep 28th
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Sep 28th
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Sep 28th
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“[We want] folks to look across the room and say ooh, I want to play with that”
– Waste Management Phone Interview
Sep 28th
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Initial phone interview with Waste Management
Challenges faced with now: When we do outreach (tabling at a public event, meeting w/children 4th grade or under, vocab in video is too advanced, don’t have hookup for electronics, need to demonstrate how materials get sorted Too abstract for people Why things are ok on video Why things need to be loose rather than bagged Why rather than a memorization Educated enough to think through it...
Sep 28th
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Project Proposal from Waste Management
Waste Management collects and processes more than 500 tons of mixed recycling daily from communities all over the East Bay. We work with schools, businesses, cities and the public around improving recycling participation and communicating how mixed recycling works. After mixed recycling (glass, plastic and aluminum bottles, cans, cardboard, and paper) is collected at the curb, it comes to a...
Sep 28th
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Sep 27th