Provotyping Accountability: Exploring Smartphone Use in the Home through Design
Rikke Hagensby Jensen,
Enrique Encinas,
Yolande Strengers
et al.
Abstract:In response to research concerns that smartphone usage negatively impacts intimate relationships, this paper presents a study exploring how design can encourage smartphone accountability in family home settings. We developed and deployed three provotypes with seven families via a Research through Design study intended to encourage reflections on ubiquitous and routinised smartphone usage. The provotypes progressively explore ways of making smartphone use visible by facilitating individualised accountability, c… Show more
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