Thing ethnography: Doing design research with non-humans

DIS 2016 - Proceedings of the 2016 ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems: Fuse

Volumn , Issue , 2016, Pages 377-387

  Giaccardi, Elisa ^a   Cila, Nazli ^b   Speed, Chris ^c   Caldwell, Melissa ^d  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b AMSTERDAM UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Data worlds; Internet of things; Non anthropocentrism; Thing ethnography; Thing perspective; Things as co ethnographers; Use practices

Indexed keywords

DATA WORLDS; NON-ANTHROPOCENTRISM; THING ETHNOGRAPHY; THING PERSPECTIVE; THINGS AS CO-ETHNOGRAPHERS; USE PRACTICES;

INTERNET OF THINGS;

EID: 84978766597     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2901790.2901905     Document Type: Conference Paper

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