The SelfReflector

Wallace, Jayne; Rogers, Jon; Shorter, Michael; Thomas, Pete; Skelly, Martin; Cook, Richard

doi:10.1145/3173574.3173997

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“…By comparison, the owner of a boutique eyewear shop maintained a high level of interaction and his enthusiasm became an avenue for deeper engagement. This relationship ultimately became a central pillar of the latter half of the project and he was closely involved in co-designing Self Reflector, a highly resolved bespoke research product for his shop [40]. This product-a mirror that guessed the age of the customer and played music from their adolescence-bore no resemblance to the prototypes we described above.…”

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Prototyping Things: Reflecting on Unreported Objects of Design Research for IoT

Taylor

Rogers

Clarke

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Designing Interactive Systems Conference 2021

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Prototypes and other 'things' have had many uses in HCI researchto help understand a problem, as a stepping stone towards a solution, or as a final outcome of a research process. However, within the messy context of a research through design project, many of these roles do not form part of the final research narratives, restricting the ability of other researchers to learn from this practice. In this paper we revisit prototypes used in three different design research projects, conducted over a period when the Internet of Things emerged into everyday life, exploring complex hidden relationships between the internet, people and physical objects. We aim to explore the unreported roles that prototypes played in these projects, including brokering relationships with participants and deconstructing opaque technologies. We reflect on how these roles align with existing understandings of prototypes in HCI, with particular attention to how these roles can contribute to design around IoT.

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confidence: 99%

Prototyping Things: Reflecting on Unreported Objects of Design Research for IoT

Taylor

Rogers

Clarke

et al. 2021

Designing Interactive Systems Conference 2021

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“…By following the design progression and more fluidly moving among representations from process activities, the design space reveals and exasperates social tensions, relational Media in the Home DIS '19, June 23-28, 2019, San Diego, CA, USA frictions, and interactional loops with smart technology and personal data. In addition to building upon a body of work that details design processes [51,65,52], I contribute opportunities for re-conceptualizing bodily excretion and considerations for designers regarding the externalization of internal sensations through data-driven technology. These considerations include the labeling of somatic data, the actuating of bodily experiences, and the scaling of intimate interactions.…”

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Do You Have to Pee?

Helms

2019

Proceedings of the 2019 on Designing Interactive Systems Conference

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The management of bodily excretion is an everyday biological function necessary for our physiological and psychological well-being. In this paper, I investigate interaction design opportunities for and implications of leveraging intimate and somatic data to manage urination. This is done by detailing a design space that includes (1) a critique of market exemplars, (2) three conceptual design provocations, and (3) autobiographical data-gathering and labeling from excretion routines. To conclude, considerations within the labeling of somatic data, the actuating of bodily experiences, and the scaling of intimate interactions are contributed for designers who develop data-driven technology for intimate and somatic settings.

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“…conclude, and what we have learned from the Morse Things (so far), is that the conceptual notion of what something is, is quite dynamic and fragile in itself -perhaps particularly with internet connected or smart things where parts of the thing's existence are located in more dynamic forms such cloud-based services (see also Wallace and co-authors discussion on being bricked[29] …”

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Fragile! Handle with Care

Oogjes

Wakkary

Lin

et al. 2020

Proceedings of the 2020 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference

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Morse Things are Internet connected ceramic cups and bowls that communicate with each other in Morse Code. This ongoing research iteratively asks thing-centered questions of things and technology. A premise of the Morse Things is that any understanding of a thing or technology is unstable and arguably fragile. In this pictorial, we reflect on how we as researchers, in the course of doing research with the Morse Things, unexpectedly found ourselves literally entangled in the conceptual and physical fragility of the research. This pictorial describes our growing awareness of this instability, beginning with a kintsugi repair of a broken Morse Thing, our false confidence in our package design for shipping, and the difficulties to conceptualize the machine learning world that we ourselves created. We reflect on these experiences, and now see these as reminders of the inevitable fragility and instability of research on thing-perspectives.

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The SelfReflector

Cited by 21 publications

References 18 publications

Prototyping Things: Reflecting on Unreported Objects of Design Research for IoT

Prototyping Things: Reflecting on Unreported Objects of Design Research for IoT

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