Things Fall Apart: Unpacking the Temporalities of Impermanence for HCIShow others and affiliations
2016 (English)In: PROCEEDINGS OF THE NORDICHI '16: THE 9TH NORDIC CONFERENCE ON HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION - GAME CHANGING DESIGN, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) , 2016Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]
Hardware decays, software obsolesces, infrastructures sediment, devices patinate. While recent scholarship has examined longevity and sustainability, we have little empirical understanding of how things age, decay, and obsolesce and how we might approach impermanence as a resource for practice and reflection. This one-day NordiCHI'16 workshop will bring together researchers from the fields of design, HCI, and anthropology, in order to unpack the temporalities of these forms of impermanence from both theoretical and practical perspectives. The workshop aims to build a rich lexicon for the material and temporal qualities of aging, decay, degradation, and obsolescence by drawing together participants from a broad range of domains working to develop, maintain, or study systems as they age. Drawing together these different perspectives we will consider the various ways that impermanence might serve as a resource for design, use, and maintenance of long-lived technological artifacts.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) , 2016.
Keywords [en]
Impermanence, patina, obsolescence, repair, decay, ephemerality, aging, degradation, temporality
National Category
Other Engineering and Technologies
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-199821DOI: 10.1145/2971485.2987680ISI: 000390298600141Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-84997470871OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-199821DiVA, id: diva2:1065661
Conference
9th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (NordiCHI), OCT 23-27, 2016, Chalmers Univ Technol, Dept of Appl Informat Technol, Gothenburg, SWEDEN
Projects
Arts and Crafts
Note
QC 20170116
Part of proceedings: ISBN 978-1-4503-4763-1
2017-01-162017-01-162025-02-18Bibliographically approved