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Alternatives: exploring information appliances through conceptual design proposals

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Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems archive
Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems table of contents

The Hague, The Netherlands

Pages: 209 - 216

Year of Publication: 2000

ISBN:1-58113-216-6

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Bill Gaver	Royal College of Art, London, Kensington Gore, SW7 2DEU
Heather Martin	Royal College of Art, London, Kensington Gore, SW7 2DEU

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SIGCHI: ACM Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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ABSTRACT

As a way of mapping a design space for a project on information appliances, we produced a workbook describing about twenty conceptual design proposals. On the one hand, they serve as suggestions that digital devices might embody values apart from those traditionally associated with functionality and usefulness. On the other, they are examples of research through design, balancing concreteness with openness to spur the imagination, and using multiplicity to allow the emergence of a new design space. Here we describe them both in terms of content and process, discussing first the values they address and then how they were crafted to encourage a broad discussion with our partners that could inform future stages of design.

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