Defamiliarising Everyday Things – Rethinking The Materiality of Tables through Design Remakes
Licentiatavhandling, 2024
Grounded in two research questions, this work investigates (1) how everyday things can be remade through defamiliarisation and (2) what lessons are learned from changing the materiality of tables. Across four papers, the thesis reviews current actuated table designs, explores shadows as a design material, and presents a series of counterfactual artifacts culminating in the Undertable: an actuated table that provides an excuse for the playful exploration of bare-skin touch between people. By balancing familiarity and strangeness, the Undertable transforms a seemingly mundane table into a social icebreaker, inviting reflection on the meaning of touch.
This thesis proposes generative strategies for defamiliarisation and positions design remakes as a methodological contribution to design research. Future directions include formalising methods for defamiliarising everyday things, exploring actuation’s potential for accessibility, design explorations of tables that grow with people over time, and revisiting frameworks of materiality to encompass computational, immaterial, and living materials.
Actuated Tables
Design Research
Everyday Things
Materiality
Defamiliarisation
Design Remake
Författare
Sjoerd Hendriks
Chalmers, Data- och informationsteknik, Interaktionsdesign och Software Engineering
Tables Got Moves: A Review on Actuated Table Designs
ACM International Conference Proceeding Series,;(2023)
Paper i proceeding
In Praise of Shadows: Sensibility and Somaesthetic Appreciation for Shadows in Interaction Design
Proceedings of the 2024 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference, DIS 2024,;(2024)p. 3272-3286
Paper i proceeding
The Undertable: A Design Remake of the Mediated Body
Proceedings of the 2024 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference, DIS 2024,;(2024)p. 2591-2610
Paper i proceeding
Enhancing Functional and Extra Motor Abilities: A Focus Group Study on the Re-Design of an Extra-Robotic Finger
33rd IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (ROMAN),;(2024)p. 667-673
Paper i proceeding
AccessTable: Tillgängligheten av Skärmbaserade Arbetsytor och Samarbetsverktyg
Vetenskapsrådet (VR) (2020-04918), 2021-01-01 -- 2024-12-31.
Ämneskategorier
Människa-datorinteraktion (interaktionsdesign)
Utgivare
Chalmers
Room 520, Jupiter, Lindholmen
Opponent: Dag Svanæs, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway