Paper Info
Title
Deployments of the table-non-table: A Reflection on the Relation Between Theory and Things in the Practice of Design Research
Abstract
ABSTRACTDesign-oriented research in HCI has increasingly migrated towards theoretical perspectives to understand the implications of newly crafted technology in everyday life. However, in this context, the relations between theory and understanding the things we make are not always clear, especially the degree to which the nature of research artifacts is revealed through or determined by theory. We examine a series of field deployment studies we conducted with our research artifact table-non-table over the course of four and a half years that we came to see as a postphenomenological inquiry. Importantly, our interpretations of this artifact, methodological concerns, and theoretical groundings evolved over time. We account for and critically reflect on these shifts in the relationship between theory and our design artifact. We detail how theory was enacted and embodied in our design research practice and offer insights into the complex relations between theory and things in design-oriented HCI research.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1145/3173574.3173775
Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Keywords
Field
DocType
Research through Design, Field Studies, Design Theory, Postphenomenology
Everyday life,Software deployment,Computer science,Embodied cognition,Design research,Human–computer interaction,Epistemology,Designtheory
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
2
0.36
29
Authors
9
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Sabrina Hauser11098.37
Ron Wakkary2918121.61
William Odom3100175.14
Peter-Paul Verbeek4182.83
Audrey Desjardins522016.14
Henry W.J. Lin6294.61
Matthew A. Dalton7181.43
Markus Lorenz Schilling8151.70
Gijs de Boer920.36