Making Un-Use: When Humans Disengage with Technology

要旨

Humans frequently discontinue to use certain technologies, services, or platforms: they deactivate accounts, block content, or find workarounds for un-using functionalities or devices. This is noticeable in contemporary trends, such as digital detox, where an entire market emerged to support users in discontinuing their use. In this essayistic paper, we reflect on a collection of examples where humans disengage with technology by applying Vardouli's concept of 'making use' to the context of discontinued use. We propose making un-use as an epistemological perspective to 'human-artefact engagements'; one that emphasises un-users as enactors of open-ended, temporarily evolving, and creative activities. We depict making un-use as transformational acts, and discuss epistemological and designerly consequences of making un-use to shed light on a not yet explored site of inquiry and a design space that is about to evolve: a design space for making and makers of un-use.

受賞
Honorable Mention
著者
Alina Krischkowsky
University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
Verena Fuchsberger
University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
Manfred Tscheligi
University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
DOI

10.1145/3411764.3445136

論文URL

https://doi.org/10.1145/3411764.3445136

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会議: CHI 2021

The ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (https://chi2021.acm.org/)

セッション: Design Methods / Speculative Futures / Performance / Gustation

[A] Paper Room 04, 2021-05-12 17:00:00~2021-05-12 19:00:00 / [B] Paper Room 04, 2021-05-13 01:00:00~2021-05-13 03:00:00 / [C] Paper Room 04, 2021-05-13 09:00:00~2021-05-13 11:00:00
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