Thing Ethnography

Doing Design Research with Non-Humans

Conference paper (2016)

Authors

Elisa Giaccardi Human Information Communication Design -

N. Cila Hogeschool van Amsterdam

C.J. Speed The University of Edinburgh

Melissa Caldwell University of California

Research Group

Human Information Communication Design () (TU Delft)

Internet of things Things as co-ethnographers Thing ethnography Data worlds Non-anthropocentrism Thing perspective Use practices

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Published Date

2016

Language

English

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Faculty

Industrial Design Engineering

Department

Human-Centered Design

Research Group

Human Information Communication Design

Abstract

Drawing from a study of everyday home practices from a material objects' perspective, this paper examines the potential that a thing ethnography holds for both design and anthropology. In doing so, the paper challenges anthropocentric assumptions about the world, and opens up ways of understanding relationships among people, objects and use practices that would be difficult to elicit through traditional observations and interviews alone.