Library

These courses will use a bunch of readings, articles, projects, tools and tech to support the course

Assigned Readings

2-3 readings will be assigned per module. These will ground the investigation by giving multiple perspectives on the exploration space. You won’t be required to read all of the texts, instead you’ll be asked to review one in depth, report back on its contents, present this in class and pose questions for in-class discussion. While not required, you’ll get a lot of value from these texts and I’d recommend you explore them all!

Investigation 1

Review For Class

Tuesday, Jan 23 Chapter 1: Mediums and Media from Haunted media: Electronic presence from telegraphy to television. Sconce, J. (2000). Duke University Press.
Thursday, Jan 25 Excerpts from Spooky Technology (forthcoming). Section 1: ‘Glitches’
Tuesday, Jan 30 Bleecker, Julian. “Design fiction: A short essay on design, science, fact and fiction. 2009.” Retrieved June 16 (2015).; & The Critical Enginnering Manifesto

Investigation 2

Review For Class

Tuesday, Mar 9 Pierce, James, and Carl DiSalvo. “Addressing network anxieties with alternative design metaphors.” In Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pp. 1-13. 2018. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3173574.3174123
Thursday, Mar 11 Excerpts from Spooky Technology
Tuesday, Mar 16 Wakkary, Ron, William Odom, Sabrina Hauser, Garnet Hertz, and Henry Lin. “A short guide to material speculation: Actual artifacts for critical inquiry.” Interactions 23, no. 2 (2016): 44-48. DOI: https://dl.acm.org/doi/fullHtml/10.1145/2889278
Recommended Chapter 5. A Methodological Playground: Fictional Worlds and Thought Experiments. Dunne, Anthony, and Fiona Raby. Speculative everything: design, fiction, and social dreaming. MIT press, 2013.

Application

Resources

Projects

http://www.davidtheagency.com/

Papers

  • Wearable Microphone Jamming - Huiying Li, Shan-Yuan Teng, Yuxin Chen (2020)

    Chen, Y., Li, H., Teng, S. Y., Nagels, S., Li, Z., Lopes, P., ... & Zheng, H. (2020, April). Wearable microphone jamming. In Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1-12).
    
  • Pierce, J., & DiSalvo, C. (2017, June). Dark Clouds, Io&#!+, and [Crystal Ball Emoji] Projecting Network Anxieties with Alternative Design Metaphors. In Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (pp. 1383-1393).
    
  • Ambiguity as a resource for design - Jacob Beaver, Steve Benford, William W. Gaver (2003)

    Gaver, W. W., Beaver, J., & Benford, S. (2003, April). Ambiguity as a resource for design. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems (pp. 233-240).
    
  • Animistic design: how to reimagine digital interaction between the human and the nonhuman - Betti Marenko, Philip Van Allen (2016)
    More info at: http://bettimarenko.org/animism-and-design/

    Marenko, B., & Van Allen, P. (2016). Animistic design: how to reimagine digital interaction between the human and the nonhuman. Digital Creativity, 27(1), 52-70.
    
  • IoT Data in the Home: Observing Entanglements and Drawing New Encounters - Audrey Desjardins, Cayla Key, Heidi R. Biggs, Jeremy E. Viny (2020)

    Desjardins, A., Biggs, H. R., Key, C., & Viny, J. E. (2020, April). IoT data in the home: Observing entanglements and drawing new encounters. In Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1-13).
    
  • A hauntology of participatory speculation - Cally Gatehouse (2020)

    Gatehouse, C. (2020, June). A hauntology of participatory speculation. In Proceedings of the 16th Participatory Design Conference 2020-Participation (s) Otherwise-Volume 1 (pp. 116-125).
    
  • Design Fiction: A short essay on design, science, fact and fiction - Julian Bleecker (2009)
  • Addressing network anxieties with alternative design metaphors - Carl DiSalvo, James Pierce (2018)

    Pierce, J., & DiSalvo, C. (2018, April). Addressing network anxieties with alternative design metaphors. In Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1-13).
    
  • A short guide to material speculation: Actual artifacts for critical inquiry - Garnet Hertz, Henry Lin, Ron Wakkary, Sabrina Hauser, Will Odom (2016)

    Wakkary, R., Odom, W., Hauser, S., Hertz, G., & Lin, H. (2016). A short guide to material speculation: Actual artifacts for critical inquiry. Interactions, 23(2), 44-48.
    
  • Animist User Expectations in a Ubicomp World: A Position paper for ‘Lost in Ambient Intelligence - Mike Kuniavsky (2007)

    Kuniavsky, M. (2007). Animist User Expectations in a Ubicomp World: A position paper for ‘Lost in Ambient Intelligence.’. San Francisco.
    
  • Witchcraft and HCI: Morality, modernity, and postcolonial computing in rural Bangladesh - Sharifa Sultana, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed (2019)

    Sultana, S., & Ahmed, S. I. (2019, May). Witchcraft and hci: Morality, modernity, and postcolonial computing in rural bangladesh. In Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1-15).
    
  • Ghosts in the Smart Home - Adrian Gradinar, Joseph Lindley, Paul Coulton (2020)

    Lindley, J., Gradinar, A., & Coulton, P. (2020, July). Ghosts in the Smart Home. In Companion Publication of the 2020 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (pp. 465-468).
    
  • IoT Data in the Home: Observing Entanglements and Drawing New Encounters - Audrey Desjardins, Cayla Key, Heidi R. Biggs, Jeremy E. Viny

    Desjardins, A., Biggs, H. R., Key, C., & Viny, J. E. (2020, April). IoT data in the home: Observing entanglements and drawing new encounters. In Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1-13).
    

Articles

http://www.davidtheagency.com/

Prototyping Technologies & Tools

Books

  • New Dark Age: Technology and the End of the Future - James Bridle (2018)

    Bridle, J. (2018). New dark age: Technology and the end of the future. Verso Books.
    
  • Enchanted Objects - David Rose (2014)

    Rose, D. (2014). Enchanted objects: Design, human desire, and the Internet of things. Simon and Schuster.
    
  • Internet Daemons: Digital Communications Possessed - Fenwick McKelvey (2018)

    McKelvey, F. (2018). Internet daemons: Digital communications possessed. U of Minnesota Press.
    
  • Poetic Computation: Reader - Taeyoon Choi
  • Smarter homes: how technology will change your home life - Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino (2018)

    Deschamps-Sonsino, A. (2018). Smarter homes: how technology will change your home life. Apress.
    
  • Techgnosis: myth, magic & mysticism in the age of information - Erik Davis (2015)

    Davis, E. (2015). Techgnosis: myth, magic & mysticism in the age of information. North Atlantic Books.
    
  • Haunted media: Electronic presence from telegraphy to television - Jeffrey Sconce (2000)

    Sconce, J. (2000). Haunted media: Electronic presence from telegraphy to television. Duke University Press.
    
  • Hauntology: Ghosts of Futures Past - Merlin Coverley (2020)

    Coverley, M. (2020). Hauntology: Ghosts of Futures Past. Oldcastle Books Ltd.
    

People

Collectives