Exploring Greetings and Farewells at Construction Junction: Affinity Mapping (Team 8)

Julie Choi, Sophia Fan, Connor McGaffin, Nina Yoo, Mimi Jiao

(We will be going back and redoing parts of the affinity diagram — stay tuned for updates)

Updated Affinity Mapping

Because we included many post-it notes about our probe, we went back in and redid part of the affinity map to exclude the probe post-it notes and include more insights as to the nature of greetings and farewells.

We pursued a new angle by reassessing the potential of greetings and farewells as accepted markers of human interaction. Because they are so established as conventions, we wanted to challenge their meaning and medium of expression by finding existing objects and interactions that contain “greetings and farewells”. For example, leveraging the checkout counter as an implicit sign of goodbye in a commercial setting.

Combined and separate view of the updated affinity mapping (new post-its on the right)

Updated view and new post-its

Updated view and new post-its — We added a new category, Human to World