Interaction Design as a Bricolage Practice

Anna Vallgårda; Ylva Fernaeus

doi:10.1145/2677199.2680594

Interaction Design as a Bricolage Practice

Digital Design

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With this paper we propose bricolage as an interaction design practice. We make the case that bricolage promotes design qualities that are specifically tuned to tangible and material computing practices in that it is highly sensible towards the unstable physical world and proposes a non-hierarchical negotiation of forms. We further show how bricolage can aid design results with strong and rich cultural and material grounding. Finally, we argue how bricolage and mythical thinking can be proponents for new ways of thinking and using technology.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction : TEI 2015
Number of pages	8
Place of Publication	New York
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Publication date	Jan 2015
Pages	173-180
ISBN (Print)	978-1-4503-3305-4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2677199.2680594
Publication status	Published - Jan 2015

Keywords

Bricolage
mythical thinking
design practice
interaction design
tangible computing
material computing

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Interaction Design as a Bricolage Practice. / Vallgårda, Anna; Fernaeus, Ylva.
Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction: TEI 2015. New York: Association for Computing Machinery, 2015. p. 173-180.

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