A study of everyday repair: informing interaction design
- Published: 22 Jun 2012
- Country: Canada
- Simon Fraser University Canada
Chapter 2. Literature Review................................................................................... 10
Introduction ..................................................................................................................... 10
The Role of Pragmatist Philosophy................................................................................. 11
Sociological Theories on the Appropriation of Technologies .......................................... 13 The Role of Designers and Users.......................................................................... 13 The Social Shaping of Technology ........................................................................ 14 Practice Theories ................................................................................................... 15 CSCW and workplace studies ............................................................................... 17
The Role of Materiality and Aesthetic Experience .......................................................... 18 Verbeek's Concept Technological Mediation and Latour's Notion of Script .......... 18 Aesthetic Experiences with Technology ................................................................ 20 Defamiliarization and Ambiguity .................................................................... 21
Repair in Design ............................................................................................................. 22 Repair in Sustainable Interaction Design and HCI................................................. 23 Repair in Product Design ....................................................................................... 25 Reuse and Appropriation within Creative Communities......................................... 25
A Note to the Reader: The Role of the Literature Review............................................... 27
Summary......................................................................................................................... 27
Chapter 3. Methodology .......................................................................................... 29
Constructing a Grounded Theory of Everyday Repair .................................................... 29 The Constructivist Approach to GTM ............................................................ 30 Data Collection: The Use of Email and Social Networking Platforms .................... 31 The Procedure............................................................................................... 32 Data Analysis: Coding for Categories and Concepts of Everyday Repair ............. 37 Coding Text and Image Data ........................................................................ 37 Textual Analysis ................................................................................... 37 Visual Analysis ..................................................................................... 39
Chapter 6. Everyday Repair Framework and Discussion .................................. 102
Introduction ................................................................................................................... 102
A Design Framework of Everyday Repair..................................................................... 103 A Qualitative Description of Everyday Repair ...................................................... 110 A Visual Map of Everyday Repair Aspects .......................................................... 111
Discussion..................................................................................................................... 115 Understanding Repair as a Creative Process of Everyday Design...................... 115 Everyday Repair's Contributions to Everyday Design ......................................... 118 Designing Towards Non-experts' Dispersive Practices of Repair........................ 120
Conclusion .................................................................................................................... 124