Designing for cohabitation: Naturecultures, hybrids, and decentering the human in design

Nancy Smith; Shaowen Bardzell; Jeffrey Bardzell

doi:10.1145/3025453.3025948

Designing for cohabitation: Naturecultures, hybrids, and decentering the human in design

Nancy Smith
, Shaowen Bardzell
, Jeffrey Bardzell

College of Information Sciences and Technology

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195 Scopus citations

Abstract

Recent research in urban informatics has presented the city as both a complex technological center and a diverse cultural, social, and political entity. However, there has been little research into the changing role that nature plays in urban space, particularly when it comes to understanding how animals have adapted to life in technological and networked cities. In the wake of urbanization, new kinds of cohabitation, including increased interactions between humans and animals, has resulted in new challenges for those working in urban informatics. We leverage key concepts in the Anthropocene - naturecultures, hybrids, and decentering the human in design - to unpack the entanglements of animal-human-computer interaction in two design cases: The Big Cat Behavioral Tracking Initiative and The Phenology Clock. We contribute to urban informatics and HCI research by reflecting on ways in which design can promote new forms of cohabitation and support a broader conception of the city that sees animals as an essential part of the urban landscape.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	CHI 2017 - Proceedings of the 2017 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Subtitle of host publication	Explore, Innovate, Inspire
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Pages	1714-1725
Number of pages	12
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450346559
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3025453.3025948
State	Published - May 2 2017
Event	2017 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2017 - Denver, United States Duration: May 6 2017 → May 11 2017

Publication series

Name	Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings
Volume	2017-May

Other

Other	2017 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2017
Country/Territory	United States
City	Denver
Period	5/6/17 → 5/11/17

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

SDG 11 Sustainable Cities and Communities

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

Software
Human-Computer Interaction
Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design

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Smith, N., Bardzell, S., & Bardzell, J. (2017). Designing for cohabitation: Naturecultures, hybrids, and decentering the human in design. In CHI 2017 - Proceedings of the 2017 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems: Explore, Innovate, Inspire (pp. 1714-1725). (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings; Vol. 2017-May). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3025453.3025948

Smith, Nancy ; Bardzell, Shaowen ; Bardzell, Jeffrey. / Designing for cohabitation : Naturecultures, hybrids, and decentering the human in design. CHI 2017 - Proceedings of the 2017 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems: Explore, Innovate, Inspire. Association for Computing Machinery, 2017. pp. 1714-1725 (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings).

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Smith, N, Bardzell, S & Bardzell, J 2017, Designing for cohabitation: Naturecultures, hybrids, and decentering the human in design. in CHI 2017 - Proceedings of the 2017 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems: Explore, Innovate, Inspire. Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings, vol. 2017-May, Association for Computing Machinery, pp. 1714-1725, 2017 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2017, Denver, United States, 5/6/17. https://doi.org/10.1145/3025453.3025948

Designing for cohabitation: Naturecultures, hybrids, and decentering the human in design. / Smith, Nancy; Bardzell, Shaowen; Bardzell, Jeffrey.
CHI 2017 - Proceedings of the 2017 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems: Explore, Innovate, Inspire. Association for Computing Machinery, 2017. p. 1714-1725 (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings; Vol. 2017-May).

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Designing for cohabitation: Naturecultures, hybrids, and decentering the human in design

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