TY - GEN
T1 - The Guided Imaginary Projection, a New Methodology for Prospective Ergonomics
AU - Allinc, Anaïs
AU - Cahour, Béatrice
AU - Burkhardt, Jean Marie
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019, Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
PY - 2019/1/1
Y1 - 2019/1/1
N2 - We tested a new methodology called “guided imaginary projection” (GIP) to support people in projecting themselves into the use of emergent services, in order to gather information about their probable subjective experience with the future service. For the purpose of the study, the targeted service was ‘dynamic’ carpooling, a mobility service geolocated for short distance and immediate travel, still rarely used. We aimed to collect information about the sources of comfort and discomfort imagined by non-users. 24 interviews were conducted to evaluate the method. The population was divided in two groups, the projection group and the non-projection group. Our hypothesis is that if the projection group had a more complete projected form of experience of the service, this group should produce more elements about the sources of comfort and discomfort of the dynamic carpooling compared to others. The results indicate that the projection group’s interviews lasted significantly longer and contained significantly more elements of comfort and discomfort than the non-projection group. We also analysed the types of discourse used during the GIP to evaluate the degree of projection: imaginary-embodied, imaginary-analytical, or general discourse. At the end we discuss the results, limits and perspectives.
AB - We tested a new methodology called “guided imaginary projection” (GIP) to support people in projecting themselves into the use of emergent services, in order to gather information about their probable subjective experience with the future service. For the purpose of the study, the targeted service was ‘dynamic’ carpooling, a mobility service geolocated for short distance and immediate travel, still rarely used. We aimed to collect information about the sources of comfort and discomfort imagined by non-users. 24 interviews were conducted to evaluate the method. The population was divided in two groups, the projection group and the non-projection group. Our hypothesis is that if the projection group had a more complete projected form of experience of the service, this group should produce more elements about the sources of comfort and discomfort of the dynamic carpooling compared to others. The results indicate that the projection group’s interviews lasted significantly longer and contained significantly more elements of comfort and discomfort than the non-projection group. We also analysed the types of discourse used during the GIP to evaluate the degree of projection: imaginary-embodied, imaginary-analytical, or general discourse. At the end we discuss the results, limits and perspectives.
KW - Dynamic carpooling
KW - Guided imagination
KW - Projection methodology
KW - Prospective ergonomics
KW - Psychological comfort and discomfort
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-96071-5_135
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-96071-5_135
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85052338695
SN - 9783319960708
T3 - Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing
SP - 1340
EP - 1347
BT - Proceedings of the 20th Congress of the International Ergonomics Association (IEA 2018) - Volume VII
A2 - Bagnara, Sebastiano
A2 - Tartaglia, Riccardo
A2 - Albolino, Sara
A2 - Alexander, Thomas
A2 - Fujita, Yushi
PB - Springer Verlag
T2 - 20th Congress of the International Ergonomics Association, IEA 2018
Y2 - 26 August 2018 through 30 August 2018
ER -