{"id":1226,"date":"2020-03-23T09:45:11","date_gmt":"2020-03-23T09:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogg.mah.se\/k3researchblog\/?p=1226"},"modified":"2020-03-23T09:45:12","modified_gmt":"2020-03-23T09:45:12","slug":"anuradha-reddy-online-seminar-at-home-in-iot-a-design-inquiry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogg.mah.se\/k3researchblog\/2020\/03\/23\/anuradha-reddy-online-seminar-at-home-in-iot-a-design-inquiry\/","title":{"rendered":"Anuradha Reddy, online seminar: At Home \u2018in\u2019 IoT? \u2013 A Design Inquiry."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

On Tuesday, March 31 at 10.15, Anuradha\nReddy, PhD candidate in Interaction Design, will hold her 90 percent PhD seminar.\nThe title of the forthcoming thesis is At\nHome \u2018in\u2019 IoT? \u2013 A Design Inquiry<\/em>. Daniela Rosner, Associate Professor in\nHuman Centered Design & Engineering, University of Washington, will\nfunction as discussant. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This will be an online seminar,\ncarried out through Zoom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To be sure that everything works\nsmoothly, please install the Zoom software on your computer beforehand. Please\nthen join the meeting through https:\/\/mau-se.zoom.us\/j\/494267134<\/a> (Meeting\nID: 494 267 134). Please join the meeting in time and turn off your audio and video\nduring the first part of the seminar. The chat will be open for questions (or\npointing out technical issues) throughout the seminar. We will try to have a\nbroader round of questions at the end where all listeners can turn on\ntheir microphones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Below you can find an abstract for the seminar. If you would like to\nread the manuscript before the seminar, contact Anuradha (anuradha.reddy@mau.se<\/a>). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The technology frameworks supporting the\n‘Internet of Things’ (IoT) have operated in domestic spaces for several decades\nnow i.e., smart connected homes. However, its strong scientific and industry\nhold has left little room for understanding what it means to be at home in\neveryday spaces constituted by things participating in hidden and distributed\ndata networks. The thesis argues that stories of use and appropriation in IoT’s\ndesign and development fall short of many meanings of home, generated by the\ncontinually shifting nature of data-driven things and potentialities for\ninteraction. The thesis acknowledges how IoT brings us, at once, intimately\ncloser to things and contexts we could once never reach\u2014lending new homely\nimaginaries, and also how IoT’s capacities can help surface the complexities in\nwhat is conceived as ‘home’ today.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This Interaction Design thesis focuses on\n‘participation’\u2014the central tenet that guides our sense of belonging\u2014to be at\nhome in the world. This focus examines different forms of participation that\nare currently at play in IoT and how they support sense-making processes\ninvolving people, things, sensors, and data. By adopting frameworks in\nparticipatory design, technoscience, and feminist approaches, this thesis\ntackles sense-making at the most intimate level\u2014situated, material, and\nembodied\u2014and extends those meanings to things that have uniquely artificial,\nagential, and immaterial capacities. A methodological framework called ‘tales\nof things’ is employed to elicit subjective and reflexive experiences in the\nparticipatory sense-making process through design experimentation and\nprototyping. Importantly, the thesis sustains the ongoing ethical project of\nsurfacing the implications of IoT by calling for active and responding bodies\nin re-claiming the sense of home in our daily lives.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"