On Challenges Designing the Home as a Place for Care

Grönvall, Erik; Lundberg, Stefan

doi:10.1007/978-1-4471-6413-5_2

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“…The role of proxies is foregrounded in general PD processes (mostly concerning care situations) when no direct participation from the participants is possible or desired [27,62]. Proxies are described as people close to the intended user (e.g.…”

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Enabling children to design for others with expanded proxy design

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Horton

2020

Proceedings of the Interaction Design and Children Conference

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We explore the question of how child designers can provide design ideas for technology that might reduce the marginalisation that can be experienced by some of their peers. To do this, we introduce the idea of Expanded Proxy Design that moves beyond the notion of "proxies as people" in design, to guide methods for engaging children into thinking about design ideas for a group that exists at some distance from their own experience. We outline three case studies where we made use of such methods. First, we consider expanded proxies in the context of technology and newly immigrant children who are unable to speak in English. Second, we consider the case of designing technology for children with and without visual impairments. Finally, we consider designing playful experiences for children with different temperaments. We reflect on the extent to which this expanded notion of proxies can be used as a meaningful vehicle for overcoming marginalisation and exclusion when children with different abilities design for each other. And we suggest ways to characterise, develop and refine expanded proxy design methods in this broader sense.

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Enabling children to design for others with expanded proxy design

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2020

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“…The case analysis thus illustrates a reconfiguration of the FabLab team and the role of the design researchers. In the second strategy, the design researchers translated the life worlds of the participants to the context of FabLab Genk, acting as a mediator and even as a proxy (Grönvall and Lundberg, 2014;Sjölinder et al, 2017). However, 'FanLab' was too shorttermed to establish a considerate community-building process.…”

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Shifting towards community-building in opening up FabLabs for non-expert users

Dreessen

Schepers

2020

SDRJ

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In the early days of Fablabs and other digital fabrication spaces (e.g. hackerspaces, makerspaces), these community spaces that offer public, shared access to high-end manufacturing equipment (e.g. 3D-printers, laser cutters) were often described as having the democratizing potential to empower everyone as future makers. However, research showed that non-expert users are often impeded to engage in such spaces due to various challenges (among other things, the unfamiliarity of available tools and machines, a lack of skills and experience). By describing a case study in which we elucidate different strategies that were used to engage non-expert users in FabLab Genk, this paper focuses on the mediating role of the design researchers who become part of a non-expert user community. This allows the design researchers to negotiate between the existing practices of the community and the potential of a FabLab. Furthermore, the case-analysis stresses the importance of networks of peers for opening up FabLabs for non-expert users. We also emphasize the complementarity between different strategies that can be employed to engage non-expert users in a FabLab. By highlighting these findings, the papers shows how a FabLab's shift towards community building can change the focus on the technical and spatial infrastructure towards social infrastructures, which is essential for engaging non-expert users.

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“…When the home becomes a shared space for different activities, including professional care, it may happen that one person's activities within the home invade other people's activities and routines within the same space [16]. Laws and regulations designed for workplace safety are also transferred to the private home environment and may change the privateworkplace ratio of a referred care receiver's home.…”

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“…Laws and regulations designed for workplace safety are also transferred to the private home environment and may change the privateworkplace ratio of a referred care receiver's home. This is not only evident in, for instance, the professional activities performed in the private home, but also in the technologies introduced in order to support professional care activities [16]. Hospital-like beds that can be raised and lowered can, for example, be installed in the home, to support and ease the care workers' activities.…”

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HCI at the boundary of work and life

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Ciolfi

Avram

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The idea behind this Special Issue originates in a workshop on HCI and CSCW research related to work and non-work-life balance organized in conjunction with the ECSCW 2013 conference by the issue co-editors. Fifteen papers were originally submitted for possible inclusion in this Special Issue, and four papers were finally accepted for publication after two rounds of rigorous peer review. The four accepted papers explore, in different ways, HCI at the boundary of work and life. In this editorial, we offer a description of the overall theme and rationale for the Special Issue, including an introduction on the topic relevance and background, and a reflection on how the four accepted papers further current research and debate on the topic.

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On Challenges Designing the Home as a Place for Care

Cited by 13 publications

References 63 publications

Enabling children to design for others with expanded proxy design

Enabling children to design for others with expanded proxy design

Shifting towards community-building in opening up FabLabs for non-expert users

HCI at the boundary of work and life

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