Thing Ethnography: Doing Design Research with Non-Humans

Elisa Giaccardi; Nazli Cila; Chris Speed; Melissa Caldwell

doi:10.1145/2901790.2901905

Thing Ethnography: Doing Design Research with Non-Humans

Elisa Giaccardi
, Nazli Cila
, Chris Speed
, Melissa Caldwell

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Abstract

Drawing from a study of everyday home practices from a material objects' perspective, this paper examines the potential that a thing ethnography holds for both design and anthropology. In doing so, the paper challenges anthropocentric assumptions about the world, and opens up ways of understanding relationships among people, objects and use practices that would be difficult to elicit through traditional observations and interviews alone.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	DIS '16 Proceedings of the 2016 ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems
Editors	Marcus Foth, Wendy Ju, Ronald Schroeter, Stephen Viller
Place of Publication	New York
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Pages	377-387
ISBN (Print)	9781450340311
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2901790.2901905
Publication status	Published - 2016
Event	DIS '16: Designing Interactive Systems Conference 2016 - Brisbane, Australia Duration: 4 Jun 2016 → 8 Jun 2016

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Conference	DIS '16: Designing Interactive Systems Conference 2016
Country/Territory	Australia
City	Brisbane
Period	4/06/16 → 8/06/16

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Giaccardi, E, Cila, N, Speed, C & Caldwell, M 2016, Thing Ethnography: Doing Design Research with Non-Humans. in M Foth, W Ju, R Schroeter & S Viller (eds), DIS '16 Proceedings of the 2016 ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems . Association for Computing Machinery, New York, pp. 377-387, DIS '16: Designing Interactive Systems Conference 2016, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 4/06/16. https://doi.org/10.1145/2901790.2901905

Thing Ethnography: Doing Design Research with Non-Humans. / Giaccardi, Elisa; Cila, Nazli; Speed, Chris et al.
DIS '16 Proceedings of the 2016 ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems . ed. / Marcus Foth; Wendy Ju; Ronald Schroeter; Stephen Viller. New York: Association for Computing Machinery, 2016. p. 377-387.

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