Thing ethnography: Doing design research with non-humans

Elisa Giaccardi; Nazli Cila; Christopher Speed; M. Caldwell

doi:10.1145/2901790.2901905

Thing ethnography: Doing design research with non-humans

Elisa Giaccardi, Nazli Cila, Christopher Speed, M. Caldwell

Edinburgh College of Art

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Abstract

Drawing from a study of everyday home practices from a material objects’ perspective, this paper examines the potential that a thing ethnography holds for both design and anthropology. In doing so, the paper challenges anthropocentric assumptions about the world, and opens up ways of understanding relationships among people, objects and use practices that would be difficult to elicit through traditional observations and interviews alone.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 2016 ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems
Place of Publication	Brisbane, QLD, Australia
Publisher	ACM
Pages	377-387
Number of pages	10
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-4503-4031-1
ISBN (Print)	978-1-4503-4031-1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2901790.2901905
Publication status	Published - 4 Jun 2016

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