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SUMMARY:Making by making strange: Defamiliarization and the design of dome
 stic technologies - Jack Lang and Andrew Barry
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CONTACT:Alan Blackwell
DESCRIPTION:Genevieve Bell\, Mark Blythe & Phoebe Sengers (2005).\nMaking 
 by making strange: Defamiliarization and the design of domestic technologi
 es. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI) 12(2)\, 149 - 1
 73   \n\nAvailable online at: http://tinyurl.com/g483n\n\nOriginal abstrac
 t: This article argues that because the home is so familiar\, it is necess
 ary to make it strange\, or defamiliarize it\, in order to open its design
  space. Critical approaches to technology design are of both practical and
  social importance in the home. Home appliances are loaded with cultural a
 ssociations such as the gendered division of domestic labor that are easy 
 to overlook. Further\, homes are not the same everywhere---even within a c
 ountry. Peoples' aspirations and desires differ greatly across and between
  cultures. The target of western domestic technology design is often not t
 he user\, but the consumer. Web refrigerators that create shopping lists\,
  garbage cans that let advertisers know what is thrown away\, cabinets tha
 t monitor their contents and order more when supplies are low are central 
 to current images of the wireless\, digital home of the future. Drawing fr
 om our research in the United States\, the United Kingdom\, and Asia\, we 
 provide three different narratives of defamiliarization. A historical read
 ing of American kitchens provides a lens with which to scrutinize new tech
 nologies of domesticity\, an ethnographic account of an extended social un
 it in England problematizes taken-for-granted domestic technologies\, and 
 a comparative ethnography of the role of information and communication tec
 hnologies in the daily lives of urban Asia's middle classes reveals the wa
 ys in which new technologies can be captured and domesticated in unexpecte
 d ways. In the final section of the article\, we build on these moments of
  defamiliarization to suggest a broad set of challenges and strategies for
  design in the home. \n\nRubric for the reading group: Everyone attending 
 is expected to read the paper in advance. Please bring a copy with you\, p
 referably annotated with interesting reflections. The format of discussion
  will be a brief invited introduction/critique by two members of the group
 \, followed by general discussion and informal mixing.
LOCATION:Seminar Room FW11\, Computer Laboratory
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