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PregnancyCubes: A design process to cultivate tensions

Authors:

Anna Vallgårda,

Camille Wagner-Eckert,

Caroline Bøgvad Mølhave,

Harvey BewleyAuthors Info & Claims

NordiCHI '22: Nordic Human-Computer Interaction Conference

Article No.: 94, Pages 1 - 13

https://doi.org/10.1145/3546155.3547284

Published: 08 October 2022 Publication History

Abstract

This pictorial proposes a strategy to cultivate tensions in a design process inspired by Stengers’ notion of problematization. This strategy is a response to the issue that a current ideal is to design technology to smooth out the curves of our everyday lives rather than acknowledging our entangled relationships with all the human and non-human actors we engage with. The argument is that if we keep striving for minimal friction, we will end up estranged and discontent. The technologies will only provide a shallow technological fix that does not fit into our entangled lives. Our case is a design process to support the relationship of expecting parents. The result is a set of nine PregnancyCubes which are meant to cultivate tensions within a relationship in different ways.

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https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3679318.3685347
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Vallgårda A(2024)Attuning to care technologiesHuman–Computer Interaction10.1080/07370024.2023.2300805(1-12)Online publication date: 5-Jan-2024
https://doi.org/10.1080/07370024.2023.2300805
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