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Removal as a Method : A Fourth Wave HCI Approach to Understanding the Experience of Self-Tracking. / Homewood, Sarah; Karlsson, Amanda; Vallgårda, Anna.
DIS '20: Proceedings of the 2020 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference. New York : Association for Computing Machinery, 2020. s. 1779–1791 (DIS '20: Proceedings of the 2020 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference).Publikation: Bidrag til bog/antologi/rapport/proceeding › Konferencebidrag i proceedings › Forskning › peer review
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TY - GEN
T1 - Removal as a Method
T2 - ACM conference on Designing Interactive Systems (DIS)
AU - Homewood, Sarah
AU - Karlsson, Amanda
AU - Vallgårda, Anna
PY - 2020/7
Y1 - 2020/7
N2 - This paper offers first-steps guidance towards the development of a methodology that embodies theoretical proposals for a fourth-wave, 'entanglement' approach to HCI. We propose the removal of technologies and the documenting of their absence as a method. Removal disrupts habitual relationships with our everyday technologies, revealing otherwise hidden knowledges. Removal as a method exemplifies that "you don't know what you've got till it's gone". We apply removal to the case of menstrual cycle tracking in two ways: literally through two autoethnographies, and hypothetically through semi-structured interviews. We show how this method especially facilitates emotional, embodied and cultural knowledge of the lived experience of self-tracking and we unpack some opportunities, implications and limitations in its use. Finally, we present how this method might be adopted by others and propose cases in which removal as a method might be applicable to study of a wider range of technologies beyond self-tracking.
AB - This paper offers first-steps guidance towards the development of a methodology that embodies theoretical proposals for a fourth-wave, 'entanglement' approach to HCI. We propose the removal of technologies and the documenting of their absence as a method. Removal disrupts habitual relationships with our everyday technologies, revealing otherwise hidden knowledges. Removal as a method exemplifies that "you don't know what you've got till it's gone". We apply removal to the case of menstrual cycle tracking in two ways: literally through two autoethnographies, and hypothetically through semi-structured interviews. We show how this method especially facilitates emotional, embodied and cultural knowledge of the lived experience of self-tracking and we unpack some opportunities, implications and limitations in its use. Finally, we present how this method might be adopted by others and propose cases in which removal as a method might be applicable to study of a wider range of technologies beyond self-tracking.
KW - Human-cemtered computing, interaction design, interaction design process and methods
U2 - 10.1145/3357236.3395425
DO - 10.1145/3357236.3395425
M3 - Article in proceedings
SN - 978-1-4503-6974-9
T3 - DIS '20: Proceedings of the 2020 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference
SP - 1779
EP - 1791
BT - DIS '20: Proceedings of the 2020 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
CY - New York
Y2 - 6 July 2020 through 10 July 2020
ER -