Title
Breakdown, obsolescence and reuse: HCI and the art of repair
Abstract
This paper describes an integrated program of theoretical, ethnographic, and building work meant to explore post-humanist alternatives to questions around HCI creativity and design. We review recent theories in the humanities, social sciences, and HCI that argue for different ways of framing the relationship between human agents and the object world around them. We then describe a program of ethnographic work with artists who feature found and broken technologies as central methods and topics of work. Finally, we describe an installation and self-study project of our own, 'Scale,' that extends these lines of analysis through collaborative acts of building with broken and discarded technologies. We argue that such integrated programs of work offer one useful model for leveraging the theoretical, ethnographic and material dimensions of HCI work; and that the distinct 'propensities' of found and broken objects can challenge and extend HCI notions of creativity and design itself.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1145/2556288.2557332
CHI
Keywords
Field
DocType
broken technology,ethnographic work,hci notion,building work,work offer,broken object,hci creativity,integrated program,central method,hci work,ethnography,agency,art,design
Framing (construction),Obsolescence,Computer science,Reuse,Human–computer interaction,Creativity,Ethnography
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
40
1.50
10
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Steven J. Jackson138027.24
Laewoo Kang2756.37