January 14, 2005
List of people types to interview
(A running list and notes)
To Interview:
Elderly
Dancers
Physical rehabilitation patients
Professional car drivers
Crane operators
Surgeons
Tourette's syndrome
Sail boaters
Boulder climbers
Tandem gliders
Hang gliders
Jugglers
Roller coaster designers (good sense of dynamics without an actual experience durring design/ pre-computer)
Capoeira (Capoeiras? Capoeiri?)
Sport players
Basketball
Football
Extreme sports
Not:
Pizza tossers (one trick pony, trick not main focus of activity)
Activities for Pure Meditation
Bungee jumpers (great movement, little control)
Regimented activities
Tae Chi (following patterns for meditation/ exercise)
Fly fishermen
Playground kids (good to observe, bad to interview)
Baseball (too segmented for my tastes)
On the fence:
Bowlers
Kite hobbyists
Thing I want in people/activity:
Full control.
Movement as main focus
Intense focus
The zone
Large "body feeling" component
Response to changing situation component
Either a major sense of own body or body connecting with object in a movement
Flow
Any ideas to add?
