Performative artefacts: users "speaking through" artefacts in collaborative design

  • Authors:
  • Mads Bødker

  • Affiliations:
  • Copenhagen Business School, Howitzvej

  • Venue:
  • OZCHI '09 Proceedings of the 21st Annual Conference of the Australian Computer-Human Interaction Special Interest Group: Design: Open 24/7
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

This paper argues for a relational view of collaboration in User-Centered Design activities. It argues that artefacts of different kinds are performative in making both users and designers perform in particular ways. In this way, it treats a case of a "catastrophic" user workshop as a heterogeneous enactment of relations rather than a case of having e.g. conservative or ignorant users.