CCDN P1

Aim:

To see how a range of 5 different people do the everyday activity, putting on their shoes. I will be looking slightly at the obvious for comparison and then more in depth of the more subtle things happening when putting on shoes. A few things I am interested in finding out about is if people mostly put on the side of their writing hand first with the sense of confidence using their stronger side. E.g. if they are right handed putting on their right shoe first. Another aspect I will be looking at that normally goes unnoticed with feel is how much pressure people use when putting on their shoes.

Method:

 To do these things I will be First observing them putting on their shoes and observing the un noticed things myself and then after that I will ask them a few questions about them putting their shoes on and after that I will get them to put their shoes on, on a piece of paper and compare after that.

Person 1: Heel/casual

With the first person that I got to put on their shoes did this sitting, was right handed and put their right shoe on first, looking down at their shoes the whole time. Pulling up on the tongue of the shoe to make it more “comfortable” once done, standing up and moving foot around a little bit to adjust the shoe, this reflected in the paper test considering there were quite a lot of visible marks and it looked like a lot of force was used when putting on the shoe.

Person2: Casual

With the second person they put on their left shoe first, but are right handed and did this standing up. Then they pulled the tongue of the shoe before putting feet in the shoe, and then they described what they normally do not notice with feel which was the laces in the back of the shoe. The shoes where put on reasonably fast which reflected on the paper test considering that there was a distinct outline of the shoe on the paper but that was all.

Person 3: Casual

With the third person they put their right foot on first, balancing on left leg as they do this which was different from the first two. The lifting the leg up reflected a lot on the paper test because there was not a lot of connection on the ground which explains why with this person there where hardly any marks on the piece of paper.

Person 4: Slip on

With the fourth person they used their Right foot first standing up, wiggled their foot to put on slip on shoes, so it can be comfortable and fit “firmly”. The wriggling on the foot explains why on the paper test that you can see a lot of force was used to put the shoe on.

Person 5: Casual

Puts right foot on first. Slips in foot almost all the way in then does the same to the left foot, after that wriggling right foot and pulling up on the tongue of the shoe and then doing the same with the left, Glancing down for a second and then looking up for the rest of the time. Feel the texture of the tongue as they grab it followed by the resistance when pulling it up to help slide foot into shoe. With the paper test it is a lot like the second person where you can mostly only see the outline of the shoe because they put on their shoes relatively fast.

Conclusion:

After studying five different people and doing the same paper test with each one I came to find out that most people put on their shoe on the stronger side of their body first and that people with slip ons and people who sit down tend to put more pressure into the ground than casual shoes.