Designing and theorizing co-located interactions

Thomas Reitmaier, Pierre Benz, Gary Marsden
2013 Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - CHI '13  
This paper gives an interwoven account of the theoretical and practical work we undertook in pursuit of designing colocated interactions. We show how we sensitized ourselves to theory from diverse intellectual disciplines, to develop an analytical lens to better think about co-located interactions. By critiquing current systems and their conceptual foundations, and further interrelating theories particularly in regard to performative aspects of identity and communication, we develop a more
more » ... ed way of thinking about co-located interactions. Drawing on our sensitivities, we show how we generated and are exploring, through the process of design, a set of co-located interactions that are situated within our social ecologies, and contend that our upfront theoretical work enabled us to identify and explore this space in the first place. This highlights the importance of problem framing, especially for projects adopting design methodologies.
doi:10.1145/2470654.2470709 dblp:conf/chi/ReitmaierBM13 fatcat:v7tycfthcneylab3iulkjii4g4