TY - GEN
T1 - Watching myselfwatching birds abjection, ecological thinking, and posthuman design
AU - Biggs, Heidi R.
AU - Bardzell, Jefery
AU - Bardzell, Shaowen
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 ACM.
PY - 2021/5/6
Y1 - 2021/5/6
N2 - In recent years, Sustainable HCI researchers have begun to investigate noticing as a design research method useful in eforts to decenter the human in design. Through an autoethnographic bird watching practice combining feld observation, journaling, and making practices, we examine how noticing afects us and our way of relating to birds. We found that bird watching surfaces a feeling of abjection, or a simultaneous repulsion and fascination with a part of oneself one rejects in pursuit of personal growth. Along the way, we honed a practice of attunement through deep listening and feld recording, which enabled immersive ecological experiences. We ofer (1) an account of our method and process, (2) the framework of abjection as an approach to designing amongst the complexity of human/non-human interaction, and (3) refections on how to design for ecological thinking in the push towards a posthuman design.
AB - In recent years, Sustainable HCI researchers have begun to investigate noticing as a design research method useful in eforts to decenter the human in design. Through an autoethnographic bird watching practice combining feld observation, journaling, and making practices, we examine how noticing afects us and our way of relating to birds. We found that bird watching surfaces a feeling of abjection, or a simultaneous repulsion and fascination with a part of oneself one rejects in pursuit of personal growth. Along the way, we honed a practice of attunement through deep listening and feld recording, which enabled immersive ecological experiences. We ofer (1) an account of our method and process, (2) the framework of abjection as an approach to designing amongst the complexity of human/non-human interaction, and (3) refections on how to design for ecological thinking in the push towards a posthuman design.
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U2 - 10.1145/3411764.3445329
DO - 10.1145/3411764.3445329
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85106711109
T3 - Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings
BT - CHI 2021 - Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
T2 - 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems: Making Waves, Combining Strengths, CHI 2021
Y2 - 8 May 2021 through 13 May 2021
ER -