Making a scene: Representing and annotating enacted interfaces in co-performances using the screenplay

Automated and connected technologies are increasingly present in everyday life. The concept of co-performance offers a new perspective on artificial agency by understanding artifacts as capable of performing everyday practices next to people. In this pictorial we adopt a lens informed by co-performance, and propose the visual vocabulary of the...

The everyday enactment of interfaces: a study of crises and conflicts in the more-than-human home

By 2027 more than 530 M homes will likely adopt at least one type of automated system. This means that a growing number of residents will be living with automated technology in the home, everyday. But living with smart homes is full of conflicts between what residents find appropriate and what technology does instead. Previous research,...

More-than-human design and AI: In conversation with agents

This one-day workshop brings together HCI researchers, designers, and practitioners to explore how to study and design (with) AI agents from a more-than-human design perspective. We invite participants to experiment with thing ethnography and material speculations, as a starting point to map and possibly integrate emergent frameworks and...

Co-performance: Conceptualizing the role of artificial agency in the design of everyday life

This paper introduces the notion of co-performance, with the aim to offer Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) researchers and practitioners a new perspective on the role of artificial agency in everyday life, from automated systems to autonomous devices. In contrast to 'smartness,' which focuses on a supposed autonomy of artifacts, co...

Embodied Agents in Music: Creating co-performance between man and machine

During this project answers have been sought to the following research questions: 1. What are the core elements of the current interactions between musicians and between musicians and their spectators? 1a. What is the influence of these elements on the interaction? 1b. (How) are these elements relevant to the design of an embodied agent? 2. What...

Conceptualizing and changing energy usage by manifesting traces of use

SCOPE: A disconnection between the production and consumption of energy use makes it difficult for people to engage with the technologies related to energy. This causes that users can only engage with technologies by consuming the functionalities related to them. This is what Borgmann has been defined as the ‘device paradigm’. The goal of this...