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Thing Ethnography: Doing Design Research with Non-Humans
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.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Giaccardi, E., Cila, N., Speed, C., & Caldwell, M.
- Affiliations
- Delft University of Technology (NL)
- Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences, Amsterdam, Netherlands
- University of Edinburgh (GB)
- University of California, Santa Cruz (US)
- Venue
- Proceedings of the 2016 ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems
- Publisher
- ACM
- Published
- 2016-06-04
- Pages
- 377-387
- OpenAlex
- W2418575326
- Cited by
- 146
- References
- 7
- Citations by year
- 2026: 13 · 2025: 16 · 2024: 22 · 2023: 18 · 2022: 16 · 2021: 12 · 2020: 14 · 2019: 12 · 2018: 15 · 2017: 8
- FWCI
- 111.07
- Type
- conference paper
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Designing Interactive Systems Conference (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- MIT-Skoltech Initiative (Ideas Lab 2014-2015)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Cultural Studies › Posthumanist Ethics and Activism
- Social Sciences › Anthropology › Anthropological Studies and Insights
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Human-Computer Interaction › Innovative Human-Technology Interaction
- Keywords
- material objects, anthropocentrism, design anthropology, material culture
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