Designing for Other Homes: Expanding and Speculating on Different Forms of Domestic Life

Team

Timeframe

2018 ↝ Ongoing

Keywords

  • Domestic Technology
  • Speculative Design
  • Research Through Design
  • Field Study

Outcome

  • Co-Edited Book on Designing Everyday Smart Objects published by Bloomsbury press

  • Best Paper Award at ACM DIS 2018

  • Collaboration with Interaction Research Studio

  • Numerous papers at ACM CHI & ACM DIS

  • Designing Smart Objects in Everyday Life book launch at Dutch Design Week


The Core Idea

Related Publications
book 2021

Designing Smart Objects in Everyday Life: Intelligences, Agencies, Ecologies

chapter in Designing Smart Objects in Everyday Life: Intelligences, Agencies, Ecologies 2021

Co-Designing and Co-Speculating on Different Forms of Domestic Smart Things


Acknowledgments

  • This research is supported by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), and the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI).

  • Many thanks to the Interaction Research Studio for providing Probe Tool Task Cams and collaborating with us on the initial phases of the Other Homes project and to Arne Berger for our collaboration on the ‘Inflatable Cat’ co-design of smart domestic IoT products project.

  • We also thank our many participants for generously sharing the diverse ways they make, experience, and negotiate their homes and domestic lives.

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