In order to make our design research as inspiring as possible, we recruited six urban participants, ranging in age from 26 to 55. We were looking for a variety of users who were socially active, with either digital or analogue tools. We developed a package of ʻauto-ethnographic video probesʼ that we gave to the participants during a workshop. The package included a small USB video camera, with which we asked participants to record film clips over a two-week period.Most successful was a video probe we triggered by text messages. We gave the participants ʻtoolsʼ to highlight and comment on their surroundings, e.g. an arrow, a heart and an exclamation mark to point at things or to express like and an ʼXʼ to indicate dislike. Over several days, we sent the participants text-messages unexpectedly.