Making by making strange: Defamiliarization and the design of domestic technologies

ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 149-173

  Bell, Genevieve ^a,d   Blythe, Mark ^b   Sengers, Phoebe ^c,e  

^a INTEL RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^c Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^d INTEL CORPORATION   (United States)

^e Social Dynamics Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

Anthropology; Defamiliarization; Domestic labor; Domestic technology; Ethnicity; Ethnography; Gender; Home entertainment; Human computer interaction

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOLOGY; DEFAMILIARIZATION; DOMESTIC LABOR; DOMESTIC TECHNOLOGY; ETHNICITY; ETHNOGRAPHY; GENDER; HOME ENTERTAINMENT; HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; PRODUCT DESIGN; STRATEGIC PLANNING; TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER; WORLD WIDE WEB;

DOMESTIC APPLIANCES;

EID: 33644512594     PISSN: 10730516     EISSN: 10730516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1067860.1067862     Document Type: Review

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