Aesthetic, functional and conceptual provocation in research through design

TY - GEN

T1 - Aesthetic, functional and conceptual provocation in research through design

AU - Raptis, Dimitrios

AU - Jensen, Rikke Hagensby

AU - Kjeldskov, Jesper

AU - Skov, Mikael B.

N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2017 ACM.

PY - 2017/6/10

Y1 - 2017/6/10

N2 - Recently within HCI, design approaches have appeared, which deviate from traditional ones. Among them critical design introduces deliberate provocations in order to challenge established perceptions and practices. We have engaged ourselves with this design approach out of interest in understanding how to use provocation in research through design. Towards this end, we report on a field study with four families that used an aesthetically, functionally and conceptually provocative future probe. The purpose of the probe was to challenge existing energy consuming practices through provocation and make its users reflect on them. The paper describes how all three provocative aspects were addressed, and our findings demonstrate how they were experienced in the real world, and how they impacted our research through design approach. We conclude by presenting reflections on how to design provocations, and reflections on the impact of provocations for research through design in general.

AB - Recently within HCI, design approaches have appeared, which deviate from traditional ones. Among them critical design introduces deliberate provocations in order to challenge established perceptions and practices. We have engaged ourselves with this design approach out of interest in understanding how to use provocation in research through design. Towards this end, we report on a field study with four families that used an aesthetically, functionally and conceptually provocative future probe. The purpose of the probe was to challenge existing energy consuming practices through provocation and make its users reflect on them. The paper describes how all three provocative aspects were addressed, and our findings demonstrate how they were experienced in the real world, and how they impacted our research through design approach. We conclude by presenting reflections on how to design provocations, and reflections on the impact of provocations for research through design in general.

KW - Aesthetic

KW - Conceptual

KW - Critical design

KW - Critical-technical practice

KW - Criticality

KW - Functional

KW - Provocation

KW - Research through design

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85023162995&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1145/3064663.3064739

DO - 10.1145/3064663.3064739

M3 - Article in proceedings

AN - SCOPUS:85023162995

SP - 29

EP - 41

BT - DIS 2017 - Proceedings of the 2017 ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems

PB - Association for Computing Machinery, Inc.

T2 - 12th ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems, DIS 2017

Y2 - 10 June 2017 through 14 June 2017

ER -