Philosophy at work: Postphenomenology as a generative lens in design research and practice

Zwan, Sander van der; Smith, Maarten L.; Bruineberg, Jelle; Lévy, Pierre; Hummels, Caroline

doi:10.21606/drs.2020.337

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“…The postphenomenological framework has been influential in HCI in recent years, as a way of exploring people's relationship to novel technologies and even as a generative tool for design [20,46,65,67,97]. Examples of such investigations include the Tilting Bowl, table-non-table, and Morse Things.…”

Section: Postphenomenology In Hcimentioning

confidence: 99%

Touching Our Breathing through Shape-Change: Monster, Organic Other, or Twisted Mirror

Karpashevich

Sanches

Garrett

et al. 2022

ACM Trans. Comput.-Hum. Interact.

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We report on a soma design process, where we designed a novel shape-changing garment—the Soma Corset. The corset integrates sensing and actuation around the torso in tight interaction loops. The design process revealed how boundaries between the garment and the wearer can become blurred, leading to three flavours of cyborg relations. First, through the lens of the monster, we articulate how the wearer can adopt or reject the garment, resulting in either harmonious or disconcerting experiences of touch. Second, it can be experienced as an organic “other”-with its own agency-resulting in uncanny experiences of touch. Through mirroring the wearer’s breathing, the garment can also be experienced as a twisted version of one’s own body. We suggest that a gradual sensitisation of designers-through soma design and reflection on the emerging human-technology relations-may serve as a pathway for uncovering and articulating novel, machine-like, digital touch experiences.

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Section: Postphenomenology In Hcimentioning

confidence: 99%

Touching Our Breathing through Shape-Change: Monster, Organic Other, or Twisted Mirror

Karpashevich

Sanches

Garrett

et al. 2022

ACM Trans. Comput.-Hum. Interact.

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“…Relatedly, as mentioned in the introduction, Daniel Fallman drew on ideas of Albert Borgmann s focal things and practice [16] to discuss the moral aims of HCI. Other researchers have also turned to philosophy for new perspectives on questions to ask in their research including questions of intra-action in agential realism [46] postphenomenological questions of material aesthetics [31] design issues of natureculture [81,109], object ontologies, the role of fiction [36,79], post-anthropocentricism [27,29], technological mediation [62,93,98,131,136], and critical analysis of design as a form of theory building [7]. And as we described earlier, our own contributions in this area began with investigating beyond human-centered thinking [89,123] and to consider thing-perspectives [94,124,126] and postphenomenology [62,127].…”

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confidence: 99%

Two Years or More of Co-speculation: Polylogues of Philosophers, Designers, and a Tilting Bowl

Wakkary

Oogjes

Behzad

2022

ACM Trans. Comput.-Hum. Interact.

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This article investigates new relations with things that are expansive and inclusive of the pluralities and differences within our entanglements with technologies. We do this by extending our commitments to the methodological approaches of material speculation and co-speculation that led us to engage in multi-year conversations between ourselves as design researchers, philosophers, and a counterfactual artifact we designed, known as a Tilting Bowl. The philosophers lived with the Tilting Bowl during this period. We call these conversations, polylogues, of which the aim is to co-speculate on a range of new possible relations by which to consider living with technological things. The contributions of our article are two-fold. Firstly, through our polylogues, we offer descriptions of three relations with things. These include 1) non-anthropocentric care: care that is non-anthropocentric and existential; 2) non-presumptive relations: not-knowing in relating to and engaging with things; and 3) ideologized relations: ideologies that frame relations with technologies. Secondly, the article elaborates and critically reflects on co-speculation as a method for relational and situated knowing that can be of benefit to HCI researchers.

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Weaving Fire into Form

Ullmer

Shaer

Mazalek

et al. 2022

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Philosophy at work: Postphenomenology as a generative lens in design research and practice

Abstract: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

Cited by 24 publications

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Touching Our Breathing through Shape-Change: Monster, Organic Other, or Twisted Mirror

Touching Our Breathing through Shape-Change: Monster, Organic Other, or Twisted Mirror

Two Years or More of Co-speculation: Polylogues of Philosophers, Designers, and a Tilting Bowl

Weaving Fire into Form

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