Creating resources for designing with and for care ecologies in HCI

Cara Wilson; Larissa Pschetz; Billy Dixon; Sue Lewis; Joe Revans; John Vines

doi:10.1145/3643834.3660709

Creating resources for designing with and for care ecologies in HCI

Cara Wilson, Larissa Pschetz, Billy Dixon, Sue Lewis, Joe Revans, John Vines

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Amidst a growing body of work in HCI focusing on designing systems that engage with care relationships, there is increasing interest in expanding notions of care beyond transactional practices towards broader notions of “care ecologies”. However, there is still work needed to support care systems designers apply these concepts in practice. This paper presents the Care Spectrums, a set of sensitising concepts for designers to explore and apply to their practice. Developed as a response to a design probe exercise (the CareTree) which was carried out with 14 participants over one month, the Care Spectrums respond to the multiplicity of expressions of care in participants’ everyday lives. Translated into a design resource (the ‘Co-Designing with Care’ card deck), and trialled with 10 designers, the Care Spectrums revealed hidden caring and uncaring practices in designers projects, and stimulated opportunities for designing with and for people’s complex and entangled care ecologies.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	DIS'24
Subtitle of host publication	Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems 2024
Editors	Anna Vallgårda, Li Jönsson, Jonas Fritsch, Sarah Fdili Alaoui, Christopher A le Dantec
Publisher	ACM
Pages	3161-3178
Number of pages	28
ISBN (Electronic)	9798400705830
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3643834.3660709
Publication status	Published - 1 Jul 2024

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Wilson, C., Pschetz, L., Dixon, B., Lewis, S., Revans, J., & Vines, J. (2024). Creating resources for designing with and for care ecologies in HCI. In A. Vallgårda, L. Jönsson, J. Fritsch, S. F. Alaoui, & C. A. le Dantec (Eds.), DIS'24: Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems 2024 (pp. 3161-3178). ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/3643834.3660709

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Creating resources for designing with and for care ecologies in HCI. / Wilson, Cara ; Pschetz, Larissa; Dixon, Billy et al.
DIS'24: Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems 2024. ed. / Anna Vallgårda; Li Jönsson; Jonas Fritsch; Sarah Fdili Alaoui; Christopher A le Dantec. ACM, 2024. p. 3161-3178.

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