More-Than Human Centred Design: Considering Other Things

This paper responds to contemporary design contexts that frequently contain complex interdependencies of human and non-human actants. To adequately represent these perspectives requires a shift towards More-Than Human Centred Design. The Internet of Things (IoT) is one context that demonstrates this...

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Published in:The Design journal Vol. 22; no. 4; pp. 463 - 481
Main Authors: Coulton, Paul, Lindley, Joseph Galen
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Oxford Routledge 04.07.2019
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Subjects:
Algorithms
Anthropocentrism
Business
Design
design fiction
Human factors research
Internet of Things
Internet of Things (IoT)
non-anthropocentric
Object Oriented Ontology (OOO)
Ontology
speculative design
ISSN:1460-6925, 1756-3062
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Summary:This paper responds to contemporary design contexts that frequently contain complex interdependencies of human and non-human actants. To adequately represent these perspectives requires a shift towards More-Than Human Centred Design. The Internet of Things (IoT) is one context that demonstrates this need. The 'things' within such networks transcend their physical forms and extend to include algorithms, humans, data, business models, etc. and each imports independent-but-interdependent motivations and perspectives. Therefore, we use the IoT to clarify our proposition and to convey our three contributions. First, we review the expanding corpus of contemporary Human-Computer Interaction research that seeks to expand the notion of Human Centred Design by moving beyond the dominant anthropocentric perspective. Second, we introduce a novel design metaphor, 'constellations', which allows both the interdependencies and independent perspectives to be considered. Third, we provide an account of a speculative design to demonstrate how it may be put into practice.
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ISSN:1460-6925
1756-3062
DOI:10.1080/14606925.2019.1614320