Conceptualising resourcefulness as a dispersed practice

L. Kuijer; I. Nicenboim; E. Giaccardi

doi:10.1145/3064663.3064698

Conceptualising resourcefulness as a dispersed practice

L. Kuijer, I. Nicenboim, E. Giaccardi

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In research on health and wellbeing, resourcefulness is seen as an important skill that can improve quality of life. In design and HCI literature, it has long been acknowledged that resourcefulness is about more than human skills and involves the adaptation, modification and reinvention of technologies in everyday life. In this paper we argue how certain aspects of resourcefulness have so far remained under-theorized, and present a new design perspective on resourcefulness that is grounded in practice theory. In this view, resourcefulness is conceptualised as the dispersed practice of dealing with everyday crises of routine. By elaborating on the complex interplay between means and purpose, we tease out resourcefulness as a practice of reconfiguration. The paper closes by discussing implications of this conceptualisation by zooming in on ways of capturing and designing for resourcefulness.

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Original language	English
Title of host publication	DIS 2017 - Proceedings of the 2017 ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
Pages	15-27
Number of pages	13
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-4503-4922-2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3064663.3064698
Publication status	Published - 10 Jun 2017
Event	12th ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (DIS 2017) - Centre for Interaction Design, Edinburgh Napier University, Edinburgh, United Kingdom Duration: 10 Jun 2017 → 14 Jun 2017 Conference number: 12 http://dis2017.org/

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Conference	12th ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (DIS 2017)
Abbreviated title	DIS 2017
Country/Territory	United Kingdom
City	Edinburgh
Period	10/06/17 → 14/06/17
Other	Space, Place and Interface
Internet address	http://dis2017.org/

Keywords

Dispersed practice
Practice theory
Resourcefulness
Thing ethnography

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Kuijer, L, Nicenboim, I & Giaccardi, E 2017, Conceptualising resourcefulness as a dispersed practice. in DIS 2017 - Proceedings of the 2017 ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems. Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, pp. 15-27, 12th ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (DIS 2017), Edinburgh, United Kingdom, 10/06/17. https://doi.org/10.1145/3064663.3064698

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