A sustainable identity: the creativity of an everyday designer

Ron Wakkary; Karen Tanenbaum

doi:10.1145/1518701.1518761

A sustainable identity: the creativity of an everyday designer

Ron Wakkary, Karen Tanenbaum

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Abstract

In this paper we explore sustainability in interaction design by reframing concepts of user identity and use in a domestic setting. Building on our own work on everyday design and Blevis's Sustainable Interaction Design principles, we present examples from an ethnographic study of families in their homes which illustrate design-in-use: the creative and sustainable ways people appropriate and adapt designed artifacts. We claim that adopting a conception of the user as a creative everyday designer generates a new set of design principles that promote sustainable interaction design.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '09)
Place of Publication	New York
Publisher	ACM/IEEE
Pages	365-374
Number of pages	10
ISBN (Print)	978-1-60558-246-7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/1518701.1518761
Publication status	Published - 2009
Externally published	Yes
Event	27th Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2009 - Boston, United States Duration: 4 Apr 2009 → 9 Apr 2009 Conference number: 27 http://www.chi2009.org/

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Conference	27th Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2009
Abbreviated title	CHI 2009
Country/Territory	United States
City	Boston
Period	4/04/09 → 9/04/09
Internet address	http://www.chi2009.org/

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appropriation, design-in-use, domestic, ethnography, everyday design, Sustainability, users

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Wakkary, R & Tanenbaum, K 2009, A sustainable identity: the creativity of an everyday designer. in Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '09). ACM/IEEE, New York, pp. 365-374, 27th Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2009, Boston, Massachusetts, United States, 4/04/09. https://doi.org/10.1145/1518701.1518761

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