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Abstract
This paper responds to contemporary design contexts that frequently contain complex interdependencies of human and non-human actants. To adequately represent these perspectives requires a shift towards More-Than Human Centred Design. The Internet of Things (IoT) is one context that demonstrates this need. The ‘things’ within such networks transcend their physical forms and extend to include algorithms, humans, data, business models, etc. and each imports independent-but-interdependent motivations and perspectives. Therefore, we use the IoT to clarify our proposition and to convey our three contributions. First, we review the expanding corpus of contemporary Human–Computer Interaction research that seeks to expand the notion of Human Centred Design by moving beyond the dominant anthropocentric perspective. Second, we introduce a novel design metaphor, ‘constellations’, which allows both the interdependencies and independent perspectives to be considered. Third, we provide an account of a speculative design to demonstrate how it may be put into practice.
Acknowledgements
This research has been made possible through the support of the RCUK Cyber Security for the Internet of Things Research Hub PETRAS (petrashub.org) under EPSRC grant EP/N023234/1.
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Notes on contributors
Paul Coulton
Paul Coulton is the Chair of Speculative and Game Design. He uses a research through design approach to creative fictional representations of future worlds in which emerging technologies have become mundane.
Joseph Galen Lindley
Joseph Lindley is currently a researcher working on acceptability and adoption for the Internet of Things having completed a doctorate researching Design Fiction at Lancaster University.