Presence for design: Creating an atmosphere with video collages

Product designers have a need to experience the environment where their product will be used. Such a sense of presence is conventionally achieved by hanging pictures and sketches on the wall or creating larger scale moodboards or collages of the intended audience or environment (Kolli, Stuyver, Hennessey, 1993). As the interaction and possibilities of products become more and more complex, designers also use more narrative tools to experience the user environment such as scenarios and storyboards (Verplank, Fulton, Black, Moggridge, 1993). These artifacts play an important role for inspiration and reference, as they allow the designer to experience the atmosphere of the product's use.