Cultural Probe: What is Your Dream? Part 3

After collecting the results from my participants, I extracted keywords from the artefacts, drawings, and the descriptions. A word cloud was created to  see which of these keywords appear more often than others. From the word cloud, I found out that most of these adults want to travel, be financially stable, be healthy and happy.

Often in times, we hear parents and grandparents asking their children or grandchildren about their wants and desires, but we seldom heard of the question being asked the other way around. In the midst of conducting this experiment, I realised what I had been doing was actually creating intergenerational understanding between the participants and their children. As most of the probe kits were passed to my peers to conduct the experiment with their parents. Discussions and conversations arose during the making of the artefacts. Some of them even turned it into a family bonding session where they were building and drawing together.

I am really happy with the end results that I managed to get from the participants. Many of them were really creative and went beyond my expectations. I really enjoyed doing this “mini project” as part of my research!