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User Centered Design Exercise:
"Extreme Characters"

"Extreme Characters" was used as a brainstorming method  to generate novel ideas for alarmclocks during our prototyping lecture. The design ideas were presented with scenarios, that  illustrated the concept by presenting a typical use situation. An alarmclock that informed by delightful smell and sound,  a hugfriendly version to keep in bed and several other imaginative ideas were generated during this session...

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Usama Bin Ladin had a built in alarm in the turban, perfect for desert living...
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Hanibal Lector prefers to wake up to the screams of tortured people and the smell of burned human flesh...
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Before Usama Bin Ladin goes to bed, he sets his alarm clock by pressing the trigger towards a picture of his greatest american enemy...
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A cashier at a warehouse that is a single mum of ten children... This woman prefers to have a hugfriendly teddybear in her bed that act as an alarmclock. A master/slave system makes it possible for her to use her teddybear to set the kids alarmclocks...
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The teddybear with a clock on the tummy...
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Hitler had a sensing bed that forced him sit up in order to not fall a sleep again...
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A technofobe that lives in the woods prefers to have a hamster whose "drugged habits" creates a living alarm clock...
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"Fantomen" had an alarm clock in his belt with GPS system that also acted as a workoutsystem.
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