Parallels, tangents, and loops: Reflections on the 'through' part of RtD

Audrey Desjardins; Cayla Key

doi:10.1145/3357236.3395586

Parallels, tangents, and loops: Reflections on the 'through' part of RtD

Audrey Desjardins, Cayla Key

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Abstract

While attention in Research Through Design (RtD) is often on the findings, in this pictorial, we choose to attend to the 'through' part of RtD in order to reveal the messy stories of how those insights were arrived at-stories that are often untold, truncated, or streamlined. We use a yearlong RtD project on human-data entanglements in the home as a case study to explore the contours of this process. We detail how our messy lines of inquiry crossed, dead ended, wove together, and looped. Grounded in illustrations of lines, we offer practical reflections on experiences we encountered while navigating these scribbly lines.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	DIS 2020 - Proceedings of the 2020 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Pages	2133-2147
Number of pages	15
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450369749
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3357236.3395586
Publication status	Published - 3 Jul 2020
Event	2020 ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems, DIS 2020 - Eindhoven, Netherlands Duration: 6 Jul 2020 → 10 Jul 2020

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Conference	2020 ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems, DIS 2020
Country/Territory	Netherlands
City	Eindhoven
Period	6/07/20 → 10/07/20

Keywords

Data
Design
Iot
Lines
Messy
Process
Research-through-design
Rtd

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Computer Networks and Communications
Human-Computer Interaction
Software

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Desjardins, A & Key, C 2020, Parallels, tangents, and loops: Reflections on the 'through' part of RtD. in DIS 2020 - Proceedings of the 2020 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference. Association for Computing Machinery, pp. 2133-2147, 2020 ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems, DIS 2020, Eindhoven, Netherlands, 6/07/20. https://doi.org/10.1145/3357236.3395586

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