Context: 'Inhabiting urban informatics' is a PhD project that is situated between interaction design and urbanism, and explores the design of emerging technologies and daily life in cities and towns.
Goals: This project comes out of an interest in how technologies like mobile devices, location applications, sensors and web services becomes a part of life in cities, and how the design of these technologies have an impact on the use, experience and understanding of both our surroundings and the technology itself. The goal of the project is to investigate how the interactional, social and experiential qualities of these technologies can be shaped and understood through design.
Central research questions: How can interaction design be used in shaping how emerging urban technologies are experienced and understood? What possibilities can be found in designing explorative devices and products from a personal and social perspective of daily city life?
Analytical frames: Technology and everyday life, urban informatics, interaction design.
Deliverables: PhD thesis, 2 conference papers, 2 articles, kappe.
Duration: September 2009 - September 2013.
Funding: AHO.
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Supervisor: Prof. Andrew Morrison.