1.ASSIGNMENT 7 | Strangely Familiar I 543 Interaction Design Method | Melissa Tang

2. CONTENTS CONTENTS Page Artifact Description 1 - 3 Re-appropriate 4 - 5 Reference 6 3. I 543 Interaction Design Method | Strangely Familiar | Artifact Analysis| Melissa Tang 1 DESCRIPTION Artifact In this assignment, we are asked to do artifact analysis. We were provided a list of ordinary objects. I chose tape, adhesive tape. The tape I drew is a pressure-sensitve tape. Its transparent. It will stick with application pressure, without the need for heat, water for activation or solvent. Material: Tape is made of two parts. The transparent film is wrapping the white plastic hollow column. According to the package, the tape is made of polypropylene, which is an artificial chemical. From Pressure-Sensitive Tape and Techniques for its Removal From Paper, this pressure-sensitive tape is typically consisted of four layers. Two of these layers are readily recognizable: the adhesive mass, which is usually composed of a synthetic or natural rubber (more recently of an acrylic polymer) and may contain a variety of softeners, antioxidants, plasticizers, and curing agents; and the backing, or carrier, which may be foil, crepe paper, fabric, cellophane, cellulose acetate, plasticized polyvinyl chloride, or any of a number of other flexible materials and may be reinforced with glass or other fibers. Less apparent but equally important are the keying coat, or primer, used between the adhesive and backing to insure good adhesion between the two (it may be based on natural or synthetic elastomers and may contain some tackifiers); and the release coat, applied to the side of the backing that is away from the adhesive mass, so the roll can be unwound without leaving any residual adhesive. 4. I 543 Interaction Design Method | Strangely Familiar | | Melissa Tang 2 DESCRIPTION Artifact Construction: The traces of construction processes are visible in the final design. There are some blue words in the inside of the tape, outside of column. It says Ruban transparent (Maybe its the brand of the tape) and Crystal Clear Tape. They are promoting the brand of this tape. They are in blue Bold Helvetica font, which is simple and beautiful. The detail reveals a designers love for simplicity. Function: Transparent office tape has a transparent film backing and an acrylic or synthetic rubber based adhesive. It is used for sealing envelopes, repairing torn paper products, general holding, etc. (Wikipedia) The function of transparent tape reveals that its sticky and transparent. They can cover part of surface. Provenance: Pressure-sensitive tape was first developed in 1845 by Dr. Horace Day, a surgeon, who devised a method of applying a natural rubber adhesive to strips of cloth, thus producing a kind of surgical tape which he used in his practice. The next major application for a pressure-sensitive tape came from the auto industry in the 1920s. Two-toned automobiles were becoming increasingly popular, and manufacturers needed an efficient way to produce a clean, sharp edge where two colors met, and still maintain the production speed that had been achieved through the invention of the automatic paint spray gun. When areas were masked off with paper held in place with cloth surgical tape, the solvents in the newly-sprayed paint seeped through the cloth and caused it to stick to the surface it was supposed to protect. In 1925 Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company (3M) solved this problem with the invention of masking tapea tan paper backing coated with a rubber adhesive combined with various oils and resins to make it tacky. (Pressure-Sensitive Tape and Techniques for its Removal From Paper) Artifact Analysis 5. I 543 Interaction Design Method | Strangely Familiar | Melissa Tang 3 DESCRIPTION Artifact Value: The value of the artifact for its creator is to provide tools for people and to make profit. The value in society is to make it easy to fix or to connect things. The social and cultural values that inscribed within tape is that people would use things for longer time. For example, if their paper product are torn, they can fix them. Another social value is that peoples life would be more convenient if they use tape to seal things. Tape is sturdy and accessable to seal/connect things. | Artifact Analysis 6. I 543 Interaction Design Method | Strangely Familiar | Melissa Tang 4 RE-APPROPRIATE Tape used as a media to connect command hooks with irregular surface: | Artifact Analysis 1. Stick the tape on the irregular wall. 2. Remove the layer which in the back of hook. 3. Stick the command hook to the tape surface. Give some pressure on the hook. Experience: User would not be afraid that the command hook would not be sticky to the irregular surface. Also, because the tape is transparent, its not noticable. PS. The surface cannot be too rough for tape to stick to. 7. I 543 Interaction Design Method | Strangely Familiar | Melissa Tang 5 RE-APPROPRIATE Tape used as a ruler/mask for painting: | Artifact Analysis 1. Stick tape in the surface you want to draw. 2. Draw. 3. Remove the tape. Experience: User would not be afraid that paint would make some part of the painting dirty. Also, they can draw lines without make their ruler dirty. They can make whatever shape of mask they want with tape as long as the removal of tape doesnt hurt the surface badly. 8. I 543 Interaction Design Method | Strangely Familiar | Melissa Tang 6 REFERENCE Pressure-Sensitive Tape and Techniques for its Removal From Paper--BY By Merrily A. Smith, Norvell M. M. Jones, II, Susan L. Page and Marian Peck Dirda http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adhesive_tape http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helvetica http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pressure-sensitive_tape | Artifact Analysis