Social contraptions as breaching environments

Mitchell, Robb

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“…'While many current technologies aim to allow people to finish existing tasks faster, slow technologies enable people to do another thing-reflection on what they do with the technologies [5]. Collaborative design in our project simply referred to accomplishing something that cannot be accomplished by an individual alone [6], inspired by the spirit of collective interaction [7] and social contraptions [8]. Interaction with a water tap is typically individually, we worked to harness how reflections with others can lead to questions one cannot think by oneself.…”

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Touchy Tap: A Slow Technology for Shared Reflections on Water Consumption

Nakamura¹,

Mitchell²,

Boer³

2023

Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering

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Turning on a water tap in one's home is an easy, simple and typically solitary interaction that masks the huge amounts of resources and efforts behind the collection, processing, and delivery of fresh water. There are many design and design research examples that aim to raise environmental awareness by drawing attention to consumption of domestic utilities. However, less common are designs that aim to provoke reflection on sustainable behaviors through an effortful and shared interaction. In this paper we present 'Touchy Tap' -a multi-touch kitchen faucet prototype in the form of a dynamically illuminated 2-meter wavy tube that requires control by two people. A slow interaction was designed with the intention to evoke reflections in use on issues related to water consumption.A preliminary evaluation indicates the potential of this 'slow technology' approach to highlight water consumption issues, even though the ambiguity of such an unconventional interface may negatively impact on overall user experiences.

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