Surfacing Livingness in Microbial Displays

Surfacing Livingness in Microbial Displays: A Design Taxonomy for HCI

Kim, Raphael (TU Delft Materials and Manufacturing)
Risseeuw, C.C. (TU Delft Materials and Manufacturing)
Groutars, E.G. (TU Delft Mechatronic Design)
Karana, E. (TU Delft Emerging Materials)

2023

In recent years, there has been a notable proliferation and diversification of works in HCI, that integrate living microorganisms; an imperative lifeform dominating ecosystems of our planet. Yet despite the growing interest, there is a lack of structured lenses with which designers can strategize their processes of surfacing livingness; a material quality inherent in living artefacts with a potential to enrich user experiences and to initiate mutualistic care between humans and microorganisms. Through a systematic artefacts review and a case study on Flavobacteria, we have developed and instantiated a Taxonomy of Surfacing Livingness in Microbial Displays, consisting of six microbe-sensitive, tuneable mechanisms for human noticing of microorganisms: 1) Canvassing, 2) Marking, 3) Magnifying, 4) Translating, 5) Nudging, and 6) Molecular Programming. The taxonomy invites diverse and adaptable ways of generating and crafting microbial displays; towards overcoming microbe-specific surfacing constraints, integrating diverse stakeholders' values, and enabling nuanced address of microbial welfare.

Human-centered computing
iving aesthetics
biological-HCI
biodesign
taxonomy

http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:26b98e4f-cb3d-41f7-ad35-34e862b97a6f

https://doi.org/10.1145/3544548.3581417

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), New York

978-1-4503-9421-5

CHI '23: Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2023-04-23 → 2023-04-28, Congress Center Hamburg (CCH), Hamburg, Germany

Institutional Repository

conference paper

© 2023 Raphael Kim, C.C. Risseeuw, E.G. Groutars, E. Karana