TY - GEN
T1 - Making Everyday Things Talk
T2 - CHI EA 2021
AU - Reddy, A.V.
AU - Kocaballi, A. Baki
AU - Nicenboim, I.
AU - Juul, Marie Louise
AU - Lupetti, M.L.
AU - Key, Cayla
AU - Speed, C
AU - Lockton, D
AU - Giaccardi, Elisa
AU - More Authors, null
N1 - Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository ‘You share, we take care!’ – Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - What if things had a voice? What if we could talk directly to things instead of using a mediating voice interface such as an Alexa or a Google Assistant? In this paper, we share our insights from talking to a pair of boots, a tampon, a perfume bottle, and toilet paper among other everyday things to explore their conversational capabilities. We conducted Thing Interviews using a more-than-human design approach to discover a thing’s perspectives, worldviews and its relations to other humans and nonhumans. Based on our analysis of the speculative conversations, we identified some themes characterizing the emergent qualities of people’s relationships with everyday things. We believe the themes presented in the paper may inspire future research on designing everyday things with conversational capabilities at home.
AB - What if things had a voice? What if we could talk directly to things instead of using a mediating voice interface such as an Alexa or a Google Assistant? In this paper, we share our insights from talking to a pair of boots, a tampon, a perfume bottle, and toilet paper among other everyday things to explore their conversational capabilities. We conducted Thing Interviews using a more-than-human design approach to discover a thing’s perspectives, worldviews and its relations to other humans and nonhumans. Based on our analysis of the speculative conversations, we identified some themes characterizing the emergent qualities of people’s relationships with everyday things. We believe the themes presented in the paper may inspire future research on designing everyday things with conversational capabilities at home.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85105813744&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1145/3411763.3450390
DO - 10.1145/3411763.3450390
M3 - Conference contribution
VL - 23
T3 - Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings
SP - 1
EP - 6
BT - Extended Abstracts of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI EA 2021
Y2 - 8 May 2022 through 13 May 2022
ER -