Deployments of the table-non-table: a reflection on the relation between theory and things in the practice of Design research

Sabrina Hauser; Ron Wakkary; William Odom; Peter Paul Verbeek; Audrey Desjardins; Henry Lin; Matthew Dalton; Markus Schilling; Gijs De Boer

doi:10.1145/3173574.3173775

Deployments of the table-non-table: a reflection on the relation between theory and things in the practice of Design research

Sabrina Hauser, Ron Wakkary, William Odom, Peter Paul Verbeek, Audrey Desjardins, Henry Lin, Matthew Dalton, Markus Schilling, Gijs De Boer

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Design-oriented research in HCI has increasingly migrated towards theoretical perspectives to understand the implications of newly crafted technology in everyday life. However, in this context, the relations between theory and understanding the things we make are not always clear, especially the degree to which the nature of research artifacts is revealed through or determined by theory. We examine a series of field deployment studies we conducted with our research artifact table-non-table over the course of four and a half years that we came to see as a postphenomenological inquiry. Importantly, our interpretations of this artifact, methodological concerns, and theoretical groundings evolved over time. We account for and critically reflect on these shifts in the relationship between theory and our design artifact. We detail how theory was enacted and embodied in our design research practice and offer insights into the complex relations between theory and things in design-oriented HCI research.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	CHI 2018 - Extended Abstracts of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Subtitle of host publication	engage with CHI
Place of Publication	New York
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
Number of pages	13
ISBN (Print)	978-1-4503-5620-6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3173574.3173775
Publication status	Published - 20 Apr 2018
Event	2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2018 - Montreal, Canada, Montreal, Canada Duration: 21 Apr 2018 → 26 Apr 2018 Conference number: 36 http://chi2018.acm.org

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Conference	2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2018
Abbreviated title	CHI 2018
Country/Territory	Canada
City	Montreal
Period	21/04/18 → 26/04/18
Internet address	http://chi2018.acm.org

Keywords

Design theory
Field studies
Postphenomenology
Research through design

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Hauser, S., Wakkary, R., Odom, W., Verbeek, P. P., Desjardins, A., Lin, H., Dalton, M., Schilling, M., & De Boer, G. (2018). Deployments of the table-non-table: a reflection on the relation between theory and things in the practice of Design research. In CHI 2018 - Extended Abstracts of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems: engage with CHI Article 201 Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. https://doi.org/10.1145/3173574.3173775

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Deployments of the table-non-table: a reflection on the relation between theory and things in the practice of Design research. / Hauser, Sabrina; Wakkary, Ron; Odom, William et al.
CHI 2018 - Extended Abstracts of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems: engage with CHI. New York: Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, 2018. 201.

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Hauser S, Wakkary R, Odom W, Verbeek PP, Desjardins A, Lin H et al. Deployments of the table-non-table: a reflection on the relation between theory and things in the practice of Design research. In CHI 2018 - Extended Abstracts of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems: engage with CHI. New York: Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. 2018. 201 doi: 10.1145/3173574.3173775

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