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Robert O'Toole

Coming from a modest background in Coventry, Robert O'Toole was the first in his family to attend university, eventually earning a PhD in Design Thinking. His academic journey includes studying Philosophy at Warwick University and Cognitive Science &

Robert O'Toole

Robert O'Toole

2.5 Changes resulting from undertaking this module

Don’t complete this until we tell you to, but think about it all the way through. It will be a key component of your reflective essay.

To the places in which others live and work
To the places in which you live and work
To you

2.4 Ways in which you would like to change the world

Changes to places in which other people live and work
Communities all over the world more able to take control of the design of their lives, and to get the right kind of support when they need it from experts
Changes to places you live and work in
The Faculty of Arts Building as a more welcoming, more creative, more open and collaborative home for a community that wants to change the world for the better

2.3 Things you would like to be facts about you in the future

When you are an old person
Still riding my motorcycle, but not in England, travelling the world on it
10 years time
Living in Cape Town
A series of books published
Professor
1 year's time
Successfully got the paper work done for our new degree courses
3 months time
Successfully got the paper work done for our new Innovation by Design modules

2.2 Facts about your present that can help others to know and understand you now

I live in Kenilworth, near to Warwick University, but I don't like it there
I'm also coordinating Warwick's work with industry partners to develop capabilities and research in virtual reality
I am developing new undergraduate and postgraduate degree courses in Innovation by Design
I have just created a new academic department at Warwick, called Innovation by Design

2.1 Important facts about your past that can help others to know and understand you now

I have had multiple careers (or perhaps no career at all)
Associate Professor in designerly activism and arts education
Director of Student Experience
Organisational development strategist
Learning technology consultant
Web design and development
Innovator in onlnine distance education at Oxford
Software designer and programmer
Teacher
I have a PhD in Design Thinking, in which I compared design methods used in universities with those used in other professions
I studied Philosophy at Warwick University, followed by Cognitive Science & AI at Sussex
I'm from a poor family from a poor area of Coventry, and I was the first person in my family to go to University

1.7 Quirky behaviours and characteristics

What do you do that other people mind find odd? Are there things about you that aren’t necessary, but which you want to keep because they are what makes you you? Add them to this branch.

I love all things to do with Kate Bush (although since Stranger Things that's not so unusual)

1.6 Relaxing experiences

Sometimes we do things just to get a break from life, to replenish our energies. Relaxation matters. And you can tell a lot about a person by how they relax. Tell us about it in this branch.

Riding my motorcycle in other countries, especially France and Spain (but not England)

1.5 Creative acts

Everyone is creative in some way. You don’t have to be a great artist. Your creativity might be in your essays, in the way you dress, in cooking, or on a sports pitch. In this branch of your persona tree, list some of your creative acts.

Designing modifications of my motorcycle
Writing articles on design, especially when aimed at a broad audience
Editing photos - I do all of the editing for the family, especially safari photos, and enjoy editing them to make them perfect

1.4 Getting things done in everyday life

Human behaviour is to a great extent goal-oriented. We transform things from one state into a more desirable state, using tools and methods, to satisfy our needs. In this branch of your persona map we are interested in cases of this in everyday life, where designed things work well to help you to achieve a goal (such as making coffee), and other cases where they don’t work well. Add examples from your personal experience to the map, with some details concerning why they don’t work.

Things that don't work well
Things that work well
Miro

1.3 Getting between places

How do you travel between places? What do you enjoy or not enjoy about these modes of transportation? Think about the features, how they help to make it a faster or more pleasant journey, or how they interfere with your progress and enjoyment. List and describe the means you use for short, medium and long journeys. You can upload images, video, and sound if you want.

Long journeys
Fly to Africa once a year
Motorcycle
Medium journeys
Motorcycle
Hybrid Toyota car (my wife's)
Electrically assisted bicycle
Short journeys
Electrically assisted bicycle
Walk

1.2 Places you spend time in

People move between many different spaces in their daily lives and over time. This includes physical spaces (for example a bedroom), digital spaces (Facebook), and increasingly hybrid spaces that combine physical and digital (most spaces today are hybrid). We have different relationships with different spaces. Sometimes we just go into a space to get something done, and leave without caring too much for it. We are just visitors. We have little control over the space, and don’t need to understand its details. But in some other spaces, we feel like we are resident. We spend live our lives in these spaces, having more control over their features, caring for them, maintaining them, and often have deeper more persistent relationships with people in those spaces.


In his branch of your persona map, list and describe places in which you feel like a resident, and others in which you feel you are a visitor. You can upload images, video, and sound if you want. Think about how the features of the spaces differ and the features that make you feel visitor or resident.

Places you feel like a visitor, and why you feel that
Moodle

When using it I constantly have to be remembering how to do basic things, it's just not obvious.

Coventry

Even though i was born there and live nearby it always feels unwelcoming and unfamiliar, I don't even know many street names, and don't have a favourite place there in which I settle down

London

It's so confusing! There's no where to relax, evertything is too rushed to get to know it, and no one seems to welcome us

My new iPad Pro

Taking some time to get used to it

Places you feel at home (resident), and why you feel at home
My MacBook Pro
Oxford

I lived there for 2 years, and still go back often. The most important thing that makes it feel like home are the museums, which are very relaxed, full of surprises, but very familiar as well. They have the right balance.

Cape Town

A city full of life, culture, wildlife and the beautiful sea

The Kruger National Park in South Africa

Because every year we go there and spend time just looking and sensing everything much more carfefully than we do at home. And the people are really welcoming.

On my motorcycle.

I've had it for 20 years and adapted it to fit me perfectly

1.1 Visceral memories

When describing our personal response to a designed or natural feature of the world we can focus on the “visceral” nature of our response to it. This term was used by Don Norman in his book Emotional Design. It refers to the raw sensations we get immediately as we encounter something, rather than our attempts to understand it through intellectual activity. Visceral feelings may be combinations of different senses – taste, smell, look, touch, sound. Sometimes they are dominated by a single strong sensation. For example the smell of bread cooking. 


This triggers an emotional response, often linked to a physical and emotional opportunity or threat. 


We often vividly remember specific situations we have encountered in the past, associated with the sensation. The novelist Marcel Proust famously described how vivid memories were triggered for a character in his book by the smell of warm madeleine cakes.


In this branch of your persona map list and describe visceral sensations that you have encountered in specific situations and what they mean to you. For example, the smell of burning rubber might have negative and positive connotations linked to narrowly avoiding a car crash.

The smell of small children (bad)
I love the feeling of sitting on my motorcycle and the engine running after it has been tuned.
I love the smell of Jungle Formula insect repellant in the morning! It reminds me of the times i've been on safari with my wife, as she uses it a lot.