A small number of readings will be assigned per module. These will ground the investigation by giving multiple perspectives on the exploration space. You won’t be required to read all of the texts, instead you’ll be asked to review one in depth, report back on its contents, present this in class and pose questions for in-class discussion. While not required, you’ll get a lot of value from these texts and I’d recommend you explore them all!
Review For Class
| Date | Description |
|---|---|
| Thursday, Jan 19 | Excerpts from Spooky Technology. Essay: ‘Introduction’ |
Review For Class
| Date | Description |
|---|---|
| Jan 24 | Excerpts from Spooky Technology. Essay: ‘That which is hidden’ Davies, D. (2015). Animism in Design. Creating an Internet of (quirky) things Kuniavsky, M. (2007). Animist User Expectations in a Ubicomp World |
| Jan 26 | Excerpts from Spooky Technology. Section: ‘Black Boxes’ Watch: What Is Design Fiction? Read: Chapter 5 - A Methodological Playground: Fictional Worlds and Thought Experiments. Speculative Everything. Dunne and Raby Review: James Pierces’ Counterfunctional Devices Study & Obscura 1C Digital Camera |
| Jan 31 | Chapter 3 - The Arduino Platform. From Getting Started with Arduino. Banzi and Shiloh. Chapter 4 - Really Getting Started With Arduino. From Getting Started with Arduino. Banzi and Shiloh. |
| Feb 2 | Chapter 5 - Advanced Input and Output. From Getting Started with Arduino. Banzi and Shiloh. |
| Feb 7 | Chapter 9 - TroubleShooting. From Getting Started with Arduino. Banzi and Shiloh. |
| Feb 9 | Watch: Art && Code Homemade: Irene Alvarado |
Review For Class
| Date | Description |
|---|---|
| Feb 21 | Chapter 1 Mediums and Media from Sconce, J. (2000). Haunted media: Electronic presence from telegraphy to television. Duke University Press. The Powerful Role of Magical Beliefs in Our Everyday Thinking. Gustav Kuhn. MIT Press Article Curious Rituals by Nicolas Nova, Nancy Kwon, Katie Miyake, Walton Chiu. |
| Feb 26 | Mysticism an excerpt from Spooky Technology: A reflection on the invisible and otherworldly qualities in everyday technologies. Wakkary, Ron, William Odom, Sabrina Hauser, Garnet Hertz, and Henry Lin. “A short guide to material speculation: Actual artifacts for critical inquiry.” Interactions 23, no. 2 (2016): 44-48 Morse Things - http://iat-eds.dcr.sfu.ca/?eds_project=morse-things & https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPcobGuSVsc |
| Feb 28 | Prepare aheads: Set up an Edge Impulse Account. Ensure the Arduino CLI is installed and working on your laptop Install the Edge Impulse CLI |
| Mar 2 | Review: Chapter 3 Getting Up to Speed on Machine Learning from Warden, P., & Situnayake, D. (2019). Tinyml: Machine learning with tensorflow lite on arduino and ultra-low-power microcontrollers. O’Reilly Media. |
| Mar 14 | Review: GhostWriter by Arvind Sanjeev. Review: Twilio’s Primer on GPT3 |
| Mar 16 | Review: Mind the Uuh. Review Sparkfun’s How BlueTooth Works and Adafruit’s Introduction to BLE |
Review For Class
| Date | Description |
|---|---|
| Mar 28 | Byrne, D., Lockton, D., Hu, M., Luong, M., Ranade, A., Escarcha, K., Giesa, K., Huang, Y., Yochum, C., Robertson, G. and Yeung, L., 2022, June. Spooky Technology: The ethereal and otherworldly as a resource for design. In Designing Interactive Systems Conference (pp. 759-775). Davis, Erik. TechGnosis: Myth, magic, and mysticism in the age of information. North Atlantic Books, 2015. |
| Mar 30 | Excerpts from Spooky Technology. Section: ‘IoT and Ubiquitous Prescences ‘ Steve Benford, Chris Greenhalgh, Gabriella Giannachi, Brendan Walker, Joe Marshall, and Tom Rodden. 2012. Uncomfortable interactions. CHI ‘12. https://doi.org/10.1145/2207676.2208347 |
New Dark Age: Technology and the End of the Future - James Bridle (2018). Verso Books.
Enchanted Objects: : Design, human desire, and the Internet of things. - David Rose (2014). Simon and Schuster.
Internet Daemons: Digital Communications Possessed - Fenwick McKelvey (2018). U of Minnesota Press.
Poetic Computation: Reader - Taeyoon Choi
Techgnosis: myth, magic & mysticism in the age of information. - Erik Davis (2015) North Atlantic Books.
Haunted media: Electronic presence from telegraphy to television. - Jeffrey Sconce (2000). Duke University Press.
Hauntology: Ghosts of Futures Past - Merlin Coverley (2020). Oldcastle Books Ltd.
Wearable Microphone Jamming - Huiying Li, Shan-Yuan Teng, Yuxin Chen (2020)
Chen, Y., Li, H., Teng, S. Y., Nagels, S., Li, Z., Lopes, P., ... & Zheng, H. (2020, April). Wearable microphone jamming. In Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1-12).
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Wearable Microphone Jamming - Huiying Li, Shan-Yuan Teng, Yuxin Chen (2020)
Chen, Y., Li, H., Teng, S. Y., Nagels, S., Li, Z., Lopes, P., ... & Zheng, H. (2020, April). Wearable microphone jamming. In Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1-12).
Pierce, J., & DiSalvo, C. (2017, June). Dark Clouds, Io&#!+, and [Crystal Ball Emoji] Projecting Network Anxieties with Alternative Design Metaphors. In Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (pp. 1383-1393).
Ambiguity as a resource for design - Jacob Beaver, Steve Benford, William W. Gaver (2003)
Gaver, W. W., Beaver, J., & Benford, S. (2003, April). Ambiguity as a resource for design. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems (pp. 233-240).
Animistic design: how to reimagine digital interaction between the human and the nonhuman - Betti Marenko, Philip Van Allen (2016)
More info at: http://bettimarenko.org/animism-and-design/
Marenko, B., & Van Allen, P. (2016). Animistic design: how to reimagine digital interaction between the human and the nonhuman. Digital Creativity, 27(1), 52-70.
IoT Data in the Home: Observing Entanglements and Drawing New Encounters - Audrey Desjardins, Cayla Key, Heidi R. Biggs, Jeremy E. Viny (2020)
Desjardins, A., Biggs, H. R., Key, C., & Viny, J. E. (2020, April). IoT data in the home: Observing entanglements and drawing new encounters. In Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1-13).
A hauntology of participatory speculation - Cally Gatehouse (2020)
Gatehouse, C. (2020, June). A hauntology of participatory speculation. In Proceedings of the 16th Participatory Design Conference 2020-Participation (s) Otherwise-Volume 1 (pp. 116-125).
Addressing network anxieties with alternative design metaphors - Carl DiSalvo, James Pierce (2018)
Pierce, J., & DiSalvo, C. (2018, April). Addressing network anxieties with alternative design metaphors. In Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1-13).
A short guide to material speculation: Actual artifacts for critical inquiry - Garnet Hertz, Henry Lin, Ron Wakkary, Sabrina Hauser, Will Odom (2016)
Wakkary, R., Odom, W., Hauser, S., Hertz, G., & Lin, H. (2016). A short guide to material speculation: Actual artifacts for critical inquiry. Interactions, 23(2), 44-48.
Animist User Expectations in a Ubicomp World: A Position paper for ‘Lost in Ambient Intelligence - Mike Kuniavsky (2007)
Kuniavsky, M. (2007). Animist User Expectations in a Ubicomp World: A position paper for ‘Lost in Ambient Intelligence.’. San Francisco.
Witchcraft and HCI: Morality, modernity, and postcolonial computing in rural Bangladesh - Sharifa Sultana, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed (2019)
Sultana, S., & Ahmed, S. I. (2019, May). Witchcraft and hci: Morality, modernity, and postcolonial computing in rural bangladesh. In Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1-15).
Ghosts in the Smart Home - Adrian Gradinar, Joseph Lindley, Paul Coulton (2020)
Lindley, J., Gradinar, A., & Coulton, P. (2020, July). Ghosts in the Smart Home. In Companion Publication of the 2020 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (pp. 465-468).
IoT Data in the Home: Observing Entanglements and Drawing New Encounters - Audrey Desjardins, Cayla Key, Heidi R. Biggs, Jeremy E. Viny
Desjardins, A., Biggs, H. R., Key, C., & Viny, J. E. (2020, April). IoT data in the home: Observing entanglements and drawing new encounters. In Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1-13).
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