A small number of readings will be assigned per module. These will ground the investigation by giving multiple perspectives on the exploration space. You won’t be required to read all of the texts, instead you’ll be asked to review one in depth, report back on its contents, present this in class and pose questions for in-class discussion. While not required, you’ll get a lot of value from these texts and I’d recommend you explore them all!
Review For Class
| Thursday, Jan 20 | Excerpts from Spooky Technology (forthcoming). Essay: ‘That which is hidden’ |
| Thursday, Jan 25 | Excerpts from Spooky Technology (forthcoming). Essay: ‘Far away is close at hand’ |
Performing Technology Concerns
Michael Skirpan, Maggie oates, daragh Byrne, Robert nd Lorrie Faith Cranor. Is a Privacy Crisis Experienced, a Privacy Crisis Avoided?: Exploring immersive theatre as a way to educate audiences and study their perceptions of privacy and technology ethics.
Tennent, Paul, Stuart Reeves, Steve Benford, Brendan Walker, Joe Marshall, Patrick Brundell, Rupert Meese, and Paul Harter. “The machine in the ghost: augmenting broadcasting with biodata.” In CHI’12 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pp. 91-100. 2012.
Designing Experiential Futures
Discursive Design and Design Imaginaries
Tharp, B. M., & Tharp, S. M. (2019). Discursive design: Critical, speculative, and alternative things. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Mark Blythe. (2014). Research through design fiction: narrative in real and imaginary abstracts. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ‘14). ACM, New York, 703–712. doi:10.1145/2556288.2557098
Designign for Discomfort
Benford, Steve, Chris Greenhalgh, Gabriella Giannachi, Brendan Walker, Joe Marshall, and Tom Rodden. “Uncomfortable interactions.” In Proceedings of the sigchi conference on human factors in computing systems, pp. 2005-2014. 2012.
schraefel, mc, Aaron Tabor, and Elizabeth Murnane. “Discomfort design.” Interactions 27, no. 2 (2020): 40-45.
Immersive Theatre
Haunted Houses in Technology Research
New Dark Age: Technology and the End of the Future - James Bridle (2018). Verso Books.
Enchanted Objects: : Design, human desire, and the Internet of things. - David Rose (2014). Simon and Schuster.
Internet Daemons: Digital Communications Possessed - Fenwick McKelvey (2018). U of Minnesota Press.
Poetic Computation: Reader - Taeyoon Choi
Techgnosis: myth, magic & mysticism in the age of information. - Erik Davis (2015) North Atlantic Books.
Haunted media: Electronic presence from telegraphy to television. - Jeffrey Sconce (2000). Duke University Press.
Hauntology: Ghosts of Futures Past - Merlin Coverley (2020). Oldcastle Books Ltd.
Wearable Microphone Jamming - Huiying Li, Shan-Yuan Teng, Yuxin Chen (2020)
Chen, Y., Li, H., Teng, S. Y., Nagels, S., Li, Z., Lopes, P., ... & Zheng, H. (2020, April). Wearable microphone jamming. In Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1-12).
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Wearable Microphone Jamming - Huiying Li, Shan-Yuan Teng, Yuxin Chen (2020)
Chen, Y., Li, H., Teng, S. Y., Nagels, S., Li, Z., Lopes, P., ... & Zheng, H. (2020, April). Wearable microphone jamming. In Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1-12).
Pierce, J., & DiSalvo, C. (2017, June). Dark Clouds, Io&#!+, and [Crystal Ball Emoji] Projecting Network Anxieties with Alternative Design Metaphors. In Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (pp. 1383-1393).
Ambiguity as a resource for design - Jacob Beaver, Steve Benford, William W. Gaver (2003)
Gaver, W. W., Beaver, J., & Benford, S. (2003, April). Ambiguity as a resource for design. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems (pp. 233-240).
Animistic design: how to reimagine digital interaction between the human and the nonhuman - Betti Marenko, Philip Van Allen (2016)
More info at: http://bettimarenko.org/animism-and-design/
Marenko, B., & Van Allen, P. (2016). Animistic design: how to reimagine digital interaction between the human and the nonhuman. Digital Creativity, 27(1), 52-70.
IoT Data in the Home: Observing Entanglements and Drawing New Encounters - Audrey Desjardins, Cayla Key, Heidi R. Biggs, Jeremy E. Viny (2020)
Desjardins, A., Biggs, H. R., Key, C., & Viny, J. E. (2020, April). IoT data in the home: Observing entanglements and drawing new encounters. In Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1-13).
A hauntology of participatory speculation - Cally Gatehouse (2020)
Gatehouse, C. (2020, June). A hauntology of participatory speculation. In Proceedings of the 16th Participatory Design Conference 2020-Participation (s) Otherwise-Volume 1 (pp. 116-125).
Addressing network anxieties with alternative design metaphors - Carl DiSalvo, James Pierce (2018)
Pierce, J., & DiSalvo, C. (2018, April). Addressing network anxieties with alternative design metaphors. In Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1-13).
A short guide to material speculation: Actual artifacts for critical inquiry - Garnet Hertz, Henry Lin, Ron Wakkary, Sabrina Hauser, Will Odom (2016)
Wakkary, R., Odom, W., Hauser, S., Hertz, G., & Lin, H. (2016). A short guide to material speculation: Actual artifacts for critical inquiry. Interactions, 23(2), 44-48.
Animist User Expectations in a Ubicomp World: A Position paper for ‘Lost in Ambient Intelligence - Mike Kuniavsky (2007)
Kuniavsky, M. (2007). Animist User Expectations in a Ubicomp World: A position paper for ‘Lost in Ambient Intelligence.’. San Francisco.
Witchcraft and HCI: Morality, modernity, and postcolonial computing in rural Bangladesh - Sharifa Sultana, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed (2019)
Sultana, S., & Ahmed, S. I. (2019, May). Witchcraft and hci: Morality, modernity, and postcolonial computing in rural bangladesh. In Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1-15).
Ghosts in the Smart Home - Adrian Gradinar, Joseph Lindley, Paul Coulton (2020)
Lindley, J., Gradinar, A., & Coulton, P. (2020, July). Ghosts in the Smart Home. In Companion Publication of the 2020 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (pp. 465-468).
IoT Data in the Home: Observing Entanglements and Drawing New Encounters - Audrey Desjardins, Cayla Key, Heidi R. Biggs, Jeremy E. Viny
Desjardins, A., Biggs, H. R., Key, C., & Viny, J. E. (2020, April). IoT data in the home: Observing entanglements and drawing new encounters. In Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1-13).
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