Leaky Objects

Helms, Karey

doi:10.1145/3064857.3079142

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“…Within interaction design, leakiness has been conceptualized in the light of leakage of digital information from, e.g. surveillance cameras (Pierce 2019;Helms 2017) and knowledge leakage from low-fidelity artifacts (Andersen 2017). Our account of leakiness distinguishes itself from this prior work, by primarily drawing on feminist theories of leaky bodies (Shildrick 1997).…”

Section: Leakinessmentioning

confidence: 99%

“Vibrant Wearables”: Material Encounters with the Body as a Soft System

Tsaknaki

Helms

Søndergaard

et al. 2021

Journal of Textile Design Research and Practice

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As new materials become available for textile and interaction designers, it is crucial that we develop an understanding of the lived experiences of such materials and explore meaningful contexts for their development. In this paper, we engage with systems in which bodies as materials and materials as bodies constitute an assemblage of vitalities in constant flux with one another. In particular, we address how such systems in their interactions with (non)human bodies blur boundaries between inside and outside the body, and between human and machine, acting as soft systems. Drawing on our first-person, designled research, we present three design explorations of soft systems that deeply engage with the body: Breathing Wings, Fiddling Necklaces and Menarche Bits. We analyze how the three projects contribute towards what we conceptualize as "vibrant wearables": wearables that through their material vibrancy surface design qualities of leakiness, characterized by a multi-directionality of "spilling over," ongoingness, which attends to non-linear temporalities and cycles of life and death, and mutuality that emphasizes the interdependency, and becoming, of vibrant encounters. These three design qualities all conceptually trouble boundaries of bodies and materials and are practical resources for designers and researchers working with the body in/as a soft system.Our work offers concrete examples of how to work with material vibrancy, which is particularly relevant to new materialist discourses in textile, fashion and interaction design. We argue for the generativity of these design qualities for other designers and researchers aiming to elevate materials and soft systems in interactions with bodies. Moreover, we contribute towards design research that conceptually and materially troubles the boundaries of the body, and we argue for attending to the material power of (non)human bodies as a soft system.

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Section: Leakinessmentioning

confidence: 99%

“Vibrant Wearables”: Material Encounters with the Body as a Soft System

Tsaknaki

Helms

Søndergaard

et al. 2021

Journal of Textile Design Research and Practice

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“…This can be immensely beneficial for users, even when it goes beyond the assumption that my interaction is improving my interaction to include the interaction of others. Yet, it can also be highly problematic -singling out users or 'leaking' data to another system or user [32]. The house of cards of interaction effects is also not robust and it is embedded in itself.…”

Section: Interaction Effectsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Towards Post-Interaction Computing: Addressing Immediacy, (un)Intentionality, Instability and Interaction Effects

Comber

Lampinen

Haapoja

2019

Proceedings of the Halfway to the Future Symposium 2019

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The changes that have come about through the increased speed, ubiquity, and scale of computational systems require a reconceptualisation of how we think about and study the relationship between humans and computers. Driven by the increased production of data in interaction and the transfer of value from interaction to data, we argue that computing that fundamentally impacts human-computer relations is no longer happening only in interaction but also without and outside interaction. While recent arguments have highlighted interaction as a problematic concept for HCI-challenging what constitute users, use, the human, and the computer in interactionwe propose post-interaction computing as one means to conceptualise a fourth wave of HCI. We propose four concepts-immediacy, (un)intentionality, interaction effects, and instability-that can help us in identifying and slicing our objects of analysis in new ways that better match the challenges that HCI is now faced with.

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