Vulnerability as an ethical stance in soma design processesShow others and affiliations
2022 (English)In: CHI '22: Proceedings of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) , 2022Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]
We articulate vulnerability as an ethical stance in soma design processes and discuss the conditions of its emergence. We argue that purposeful vulnerability - an act of taking risk, exposing oneself, and resigning part of one's autonomy - is a necessary although often neglected part of design, and specifically soma design, which builds on felt experience and stimulates designers to engage with the non-habitual by challenging norms, habitual movements, and social interactions. With the help of ethnography, video analysis, and micro-phenomenological interviews, we document an early design exploration around drones, describing how vulnerability is accomplished in collaboration between members of the design team and the design materials. We (1) define vulnerability as an active ethical stance; (2) make vulnerability visible as a necessary but often neglected part of an exploratory design process; and (3) discuss the conditions of its emergence, demonstrating the importance of deliberating ethics within the design process.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) , 2022.
Series
Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings
Keywords [en]
drones, ethics, soma design, vulnerability
National Category
Human Computer Interaction
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-317119DOI: 10.1145/3491102.3501994ISI: 000890212502063Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85129767428OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-317119DiVA, id: diva2:1693225
Conference
2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2022, 30 April 2022 through 5 May 2022, Virtual, Online
Note
QC 20220906
Part of proceedings: ISBN 978-145039157-3
2022-09-062022-09-062023-03-22Bibliographically approved