Abstract
This paper reports on a postphenomenological inquiry of six trained philosophers, who as study participants lived with and reflected on a research product we designed known as the Tilting Bowl: a ceramic bowl that unpredictably but gently tilts multiple times daily. The Tilting Bowl is a counterfactual artifact that is designed specifically for this study as part of a material speculation approach to design research. A postphenomenological inquiry looks to describe and analyze accounts of relationships between humans and technological artifacts, and how each mutually shapes the other through mediations that form the human subjectivity and objectivity of any given situation. This paper contributes an empirical account and analysis of the relations that emerged (background and alterity) and the relativistic views that co-constitute the philosophers, Tilting Bowl, and their specific worlds. The findings demonstrate the relevance of this philosophical framing to fundamentally and broadly understand how people engage digital artifacts.
| Original language | English |
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| 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 | 12 |
| ISBN (Print) | 978-1-4503-5620-6 |
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| 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 https://chi2018.acm.org/ |
Conference
| Conference | 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2018 |
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| Abbreviated title | CHI '18 |
| Country/Territory | Canada |
| City | Montreal |
| Period | 21/04/18 → 26/04/18 |
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Keywords
- Co-speculation
- Material speculation
- Postphenomenology