Expanding and refining design and criticality in HCI

James Pierce; Phoebe Sengers; Tad Hirsch; Tom Jenkins; William Gaver; Carl Disalvo

doi:10.1145/2702123.2702438

Expanding and refining design and criticality in HCI

James Pierce, Phoebe Sengers, Tad Hirsch, Tom Jenkins, William Gaver, Carl Disalvo

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Abstract

The term 'critical design' is on the upswing in HCI. We analyze how discourses around 'critical design' are diverging in Design and HCI. We argue that this divergence undermines HCI's ability to learn from and appropriate the design approaches signaled by this term. Instead, we articulate two ways to broaden and deepen connections between Design and HCI: (1) develop a broader collective understanding of what these design approaches can be, without forcing them to be about 'criticality' or 'critical design,' narrowly construed; and (2) shape a variation of design criticism to better meet Design practices, terms, and ways of knowing.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	CHI '15: Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Place of Publication	New York, NY, United States
Publisher	ACM
Pages	2083-2092
Number of pages	10
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450331456
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2702123.2702438
Publication status	Published - 18 Apr 2015
Externally published	Yes
Event	33rd Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI EA 2015 - Seoul, Korea, Republic of Duration: 18 Apr 2015 → 23 Apr 2015

Publication series

Name	Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings
Volume	2015-April

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Conference	33rd Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI EA 2015
Country/Territory	Korea, Republic of
City	Seoul
Period	18/04/15 → 23/04/15

Keywords

Critical design
Critical theory
Design criticism
Design thinking
Expanded design practice
Speculative design

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Pierce, J., Sengers, P., Hirsch, T., Jenkins, T., Gaver, W., & Disalvo, C. (2015). Expanding and refining design and criticality in HCI. In CHI '15: Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 2083-2092). (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings; Vol. 2015-April). ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/2702123.2702438

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Pierce, J, Sengers, P, Hirsch, T, Jenkins, T, Gaver, W & Disalvo, C 2015, Expanding and refining design and criticality in HCI. in CHI '15: Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings, vol. 2015-April, ACM, New York, NY, United States, pp. 2083-2092, 33rd Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI EA 2015, Seoul, Korea, Republic of, 18/04/15. https://doi.org/10.1145/2702123.2702438

Expanding and refining design and criticality in HCI. / Pierce, James; Sengers, Phoebe; Hirsch, Tad et al.
CHI '15: Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. New York, NY, United States: ACM, 2015. p. 2083-2092 (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings; Vol. 2015-April).

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