Toward a framework for ecologies of artifacts: how are digital artifacts interconnected within a personal life? Export

@inproceedings{citeulike:4185951, abstract = {Assuming that an interactive artifact cannot be fully understood by itself due to their increasing number, we explored how individual artifacts are related to each other and how those relationships can be investigated for further design and research implications. This study suggests a concept of ecology of artifacts to describe any implicit or explicit relationships among interactive artifacts in one's personal life. We conducted two types of studies -- personal inventory study and an ecology map study -- to explore multiple dimensions for understanding a personal ecology of artifacts. We expect the knowledge of artifact ecology would help designers and researchers in the field of HCI to create and analyze interactive artifacts considering their dynamic interplays in an increasingly ubiquitous technology environment.}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, author = {Jung, Heekyoung and Stolterman, Erik and Ryan, Will and Thompson, Tonya and Siegel, Marty}, booktitle = {NordiCHI '08: Proceedings of the 5th Nordic conference on Human-computer interaction}, citeulike-article-id = {4185951}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1463160.1463182}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1463160.1463182}, doi = {10.1145/1463160.1463182}, isbn = {978-1-59593-704-9}, keywords = {artefacts, ecology, framework, hci}, location = {Lund, Sweden}, pages = {201--210}, posted-at = {2009-03-17 09:28:40}, priority = {5}, publisher = {ACM}, title = {Toward a framework for ecologies of artifacts: how are digital artifacts interconnected within a personal life?}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1463160.1463182}, year = {2008} }

TY - CONF ID - citeulike:4185951 L3 - citeulike-article-id:4185951 N2 - Assuming that an interactive artifact cannot be fully understood by itself due to their increasing number, we explored how individual artifacts are related to each other and how those relationships can be investigated for further design and research implications. This study suggests a concept of ecology of artifacts to describe any implicit or explicit relationships among interactive artifacts in one's personal life. We conducted two types of studies -- personal inventory study and an ecology map study -- to explore multiple dimensions for understanding a personal ecology of artifacts. We expect the knowledge of artifact ecology would help designers and researchers in the field of HCI to create and analyze interactive artifacts considering their dynamic interplays in an increasingly ubiquitous technology environment. CY - Lund, Sweden SN - 978-1-59593-704-9 AD - New York, NY, USA EP - 210 TI - Toward a framework for ecologies of artifacts: how are digital artifacts interconnected within a personal life? PB - ACM T2 - NordiCHI '08: Proceedings of the 5th Nordic conference on Human-computer interaction SP - 201 KW - artefacts KW - ecology KW - framework KW - hci AU - Jung, Heekyoung AU - Stolterman, Erik AU - Ryan, Will AU - Thompson, Tonya AU - Siegel, Marty PY - 2008/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1463160.1463182 ER -