Staying open to interpretation

Sengers, Phoebe; Gaver, William

doi:10.1145/1142405.1142422

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“…OnLines was designed to 'defamiliarize' participants about their daily online interactions, by presenting them with an interface display revealing a novel visual trace of ordinarily invisible patterns of activity. Our aim through deploying OnLines was to generate situated, socio-cultural understandings [7,58,59]. Participating retirees were emailed preliminary questions, and then interviewed at home, face-to-face, pre-and postdeployment of OnLines.…”

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“…We made OnLines a standalone device rather than software so that it would have a conspicuous presence in the home, for on-going engagement in 'walk-up interaction'. We designed the interface to be unambiguous in functionality and easy to use, so that the usability would not detract from participant engagement with the displays that were open to interpretation and meaning making [59]. We were guided in this effort by the concept of defamiliarization [7], to support participants in exploring alternative positions on their daily lives that would prompt discussion at interview about how they think they live versus how their lives are tracked and depicted.…”

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Transitions in Digital Personhood

Durrant

Kirk

Pisanty

et al. 2017

Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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We present findings from a qualitative study about how Internet use supports self-functioning following the life transition of retirement from work. This study recruited six recent retirees and included the deployment of OnLines, a design research artifact that logged and visualized key online services used by participants at home over four-weeks. The deployment was supported by pre-and post-deployment interviews. OnLines prompted participants' reflection on their patterns of Internet use. Position Exchange Theory was used to understand retirees' sense making from a lifespan perspective, informing the design of supportive online services. This paper delivers a three-fold contribution to the field of human-computer interaction, advancing a lifespanoriented approach by conceptualizing the self as a dialogical phenomenon that develops over time, advancing the ageing discourse by reporting on retirees' complex identities in the context of their life histories, and advancing discourse on research through design by developing OnLines to foster participant-researcher reflection informed by Self Psychology.

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Section: Design Of Onlines As a Research Artifactmentioning

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Transitions in Digital Personhood

Durrant

Kirk

Pisanty

et al. 2017

Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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“…Recently a number of researchers have explored alternative strategies in the form of systems designed to be open to multiple interpretations [7,16,11]. Several advantages are suggested for such an approach.…”

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“…For example, open-ended systems may fit multiple localities, as different people can understand and use them in ways that make sense for their particular situations [16]. They may encourage curiosity and exploration as users engage in making meaning with and through them [4].…”

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The prayer companion

Gaver

Blythe

Boucher

et al. 2010

Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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In this paper we describe the Prayer Companion, a device we developed as a resource for the spiritual activity of a group of cloistered nuns. The device displays a stream of information sourced from RSS news feeds and social networking sites to suggest possible topics for prayers. The nuns have engaged with the device enthusiastically over the first ten months of an ongoing deployment, and, notwithstanding some initial irritation with the balance of content, report that it plays a significant and continuing role in their prayer life. We discuss how we balanced specificity in the design with a degree of openness for interpretation to create a resource that the nuns could both understand and appropriate, describe the importance of materiality to the device's successful adoption, consider its implications as a design for older people, and reflect on the example it provides of how computation may serve spirituality.

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Everyday appropriations of information technology: A study of creative uses of digital cameras

Salovaara

Helfenstein

Oulasvirta

2011

J. Am. Soc. Inf. Sci.

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Repurposive appropriation is a creative everyday act in which a user invents a novel use for information technology (IT) and adopts it. This study is the first to address its prevalence and predictability in the consumer IT context. In all, 2,379 respondents filled in an online questionnaire on creative uses of digital cameras, such as using them as scanners, periscopes, and storage media. The data reveal that such creative uses are adopted by about half of the users, on average, across different demographic backgrounds. Discovery of a creative use on one's own is slightly more common than is learning it from others. Most users discover the creative uses either completely on their own or wholly through learning from others. Our regression model explains 34% of the variance in adoption of invented uses, with technology cognizance orientation, gender, exploration orientation, use frequency, and use tenure as the strongest predictors. These findings have implications for both design and marketing.

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Staying open to interpretation

Cited by 430 publications

References 23 publications

Transitions in Digital Personhood

Transitions in Digital Personhood

The prayer companion

Everyday appropriations of information technology: A study of creative uses of digital cameras

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