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Nelson, H. G. and E. Stolterman. Design Way: Intentional Change in an Unpredictable World. Englewood Cliffs: Educational Technology Publications, 2003. This same quote appears in E. Blevis and E. Stolterman, "Ensoulment and Sustainable Interaction Design," IASDR 2007 Hong Kong: November 12--15, 2007, and W. Odom, "Personal Inventories: Toward durable human-product relationships," In Ext. Abs. CHI '08. New York: ACM Press, 2008.

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Eli Blevis, Sustainable interaction design: invention & disposal, renewal & reuse, Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems, April 28-May 03, 2007, San Jose, California, USA  [doi>10.1145/1240624.1240705]

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Csíkszentmihályi, M., and E. Rochberg-Halton. The Meaning of Things: Domestic Symbols and the Self. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981, 17.

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Allison Woodruff , Jay Hasbrouck , Sally Augustin, A bright green perspective on sustainable choices, Proceeding of the twenty-sixth annual SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems, April 05-10, 2008, Florence, Italy  [doi>10.1145/1357054.1357109]

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The tradition of photography specifically as a mechanism of inventory documentation played an influential role in the development of the personal inventories approach, which is discussed in Visual Anthropology: Photography as a Research Method (revised and expanded). Another interesting example of photo-ethnography is P. Menzel, Material World: A Global Family Portrait, San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1994.

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Timer originally photographed by authors. Image later re-shot courtesy of Don Trull.

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Kinsey, A. C., W. R. Pomeroy, and C. E. Martin. Sexual Behavior in the Human Male. Bloomington, Ind.. Indiana University Press, 2003

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Collier, J. and M. Collier. Visual Anthropology: Photography as a Research Method (revised and expanded). Albuquerque University of New Mexico Press, 1986.

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Nelson, H. G. and E. Stolterman. Design Way: Intentional Change in an Unpredictable World. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Educational Technology Publications, 2003, 29

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Stolterman, E. "The nature of design practice and implications for interaction design research." International Journal of Design 2, no. 1 (2008)

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The general mode of inventory-type inquiry has also appeared in HCI and design literature including (but not limited to): R. Strickland, "Portable effects: A survey of nomadic design practice." Tech Report TR1998-003, Interval Research Corp., 1998, http://www.portablefx.com; The "Personal Inventory" method card found in IDEO. IDEO Method Cards. ISBN 0-9544132-1-0, 2003; M. Ludvigsson, "Energy objects: Reflection through interaction," in Proc. of 'In the Making' the First Nordic Conference on Design Research, 2005; S. D. Mainwaring, K. Anderson, and M. F. Chang, "What's in your wallet?: implications for global e-wallet design," in Ext. Abs. of CHI '05, New York: ACM Press, 2005; J. Chipchase, P. Persson, P. Piippo, M. Aarras, and T. Yamamoto, "Mobile essentials: field study and concepting," in Proc. of DUX '05, vol. 135, New York: AIGA, 2005. Additionally, previous design ethnography research---such as T. Salvador, G. Bell, and K. Anderson, "Design Ethnography," Design Management Journal 10, no. 4 (1999) and R. Wakkary and L. Maestri, "The resourcefulness of everyday design," in Proc. of C&C '07, New York: ACM Press, 2007---has ties to the general aim and spirit of our development and use of the personal inventories method. P. Menzel's Material World: A Global Family Portrait is an additional influence, however, while his work represents a fantastic photographic treatment of global cultural differences in attitudes toward materialism---it is reductive in its approach. In other words, Menzel attempts to reduce each country to a single representative photograph, where our aim is quite the opposite---to display the range of practice and phenomena with respect to the durability of digital and non-digital artifice.

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The concept of "redirective practice" is owed to Fry in Fry, Tony (2008, in press). Design Futuring. Berg Publishing.

William Odom , James Pierce , Erik Stolterman , Eli Blevis, Understanding why we preserve some things and discard others in the context of interaction design, Proceedings of the 27th international conference on Human factors in computing systems, April 04-09, 2009, Boston, MA, USA

William Odom: colleagues

Eli Blevis: colleagues

Erik Stolterman: colleagues