Iterating through Feeling-with Nonhuman Things: Exploring repertoires for design iteration in more-than-human design

Armi Behzad; Ron Wakkary; Doenja Oogjes; Ce Zhong; Henry Lin

doi:10.1145/3491101.3519860

Iterating through Feeling-with Nonhuman Things: Exploring repertoires for design iteration in more-than-human design

Armi Behzad
, Ron Wakkary
, Doenja Oogjes
, Ce Zhong
, Henry Lin

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Academic › peer-review

20 Citations (Scopus)

Abstract

In this paper, we explore the notion of sympathy in the context of more-than-human design to include nonhuman participation in a design iteration process in an ongoing project named the Morse Things. We explore ways in which nonhuman agency, particularly breakage, can participate in an assembly of human and nonhuman designers. Motivated by Ron Wakkary's theory of designing-with and the concept of repertoires, we propose feeling-with as a potential repertoire for increasing nonhuman participation before, during, and after the design process. Finally, we explore four instances of sympathy and how breakage as a nonhuman force can lead us to new design iterations to redesign the new set of Morse Things.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	CHI EA '22
Subtitle of host publication	Extended Abstracts of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Editors	Simone Barbosa, Cliff Lampe, Caroline Appert, David A. Shamma
Place of Publication	New York
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery, Inc.
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-4503-9156-6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3491101.3519860
Publication status	Published - 28 Apr 2022
Event	2022 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2022 - Virtual, Online, United States Duration: 30 Apr 2022 → 5 May 2022

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Conference	2022 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2022
Country/Territory	United States
City	Virtual, Online
Period	30/04/22 → 5/05/22

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Funding

We thank the reviewers for their valuable comments and feedback. This research was funded by NSERC Discovery (RGPIN-2017-04782) and SSHRC Insight (SSHRC 435-2017-0621). We acknowledge that this work was created on the unceded ancestral territory of the xwmeθkweyem (Musqueam), Skwxwu7mesh (Squamish), and Selil-wetal (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. We acknowledge that while the more-than-human world has recently been brought into HCI and design, it has always been at the heart of many Indigenous forms of knowledge and practices. Therefore, we believe approaching it from a position of humility and generosity is essential.

Keywords

Breakage
Designing-with
Feeling-with
Gothic ontology
More-than-human design
Posthuman design
Repertoires
Research through design
Sympathy

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Behzad, A., Wakkary, R., Oogjes, D., Zhong, C., & Lin, H. (2022). Iterating through Feeling-with Nonhuman Things: Exploring repertoires for design iteration in more-than-human design. In S. Barbosa, C. Lampe, C. Appert, & D. A. Shamma (Eds.), CHI EA '22: Extended Abstracts of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Article 278 Association for Computing Machinery, Inc.. https://doi.org/10.1145/3491101.3519860

Behzad, Armi ; Wakkary, Ron ; Oogjes, Doenja et al. / Iterating through Feeling-with Nonhuman Things : Exploring repertoires for design iteration in more-than-human design. CHI EA '22: Extended Abstracts of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. editor / Simone Barbosa ; Cliff Lampe ; Caroline Appert ; David A. Shamma. New York : Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., 2022.

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Behzad, A, Wakkary, R , Oogjes, D, Zhong, C & Lin, H 2022, Iterating through Feeling-with Nonhuman Things: Exploring repertoires for design iteration in more-than-human design. in S Barbosa, C Lampe, C Appert & DA Shamma (eds), CHI EA '22: Extended Abstracts of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems., 278, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., New York, 2022 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2022, Virtual, Online, United States, 30/04/22. https://doi.org/10.1145/3491101.3519860

Iterating through Feeling-with Nonhuman Things: Exploring repertoires for design iteration in more-than-human design. / Behzad, Armi; Wakkary, Ron ; Oogjes, Doenja et al.
CHI EA '22: Extended Abstracts of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. ed. / Simone Barbosa; Cliff Lampe; Caroline Appert; David A. Shamma. New York: Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., 2022. 278.

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