Empowering products: personal identity through the act of appropriation

  • Authors:
  • Binaebi Akah;Shaowen Bardzell

  • Affiliations:
  • Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA;School of Informatics and Computing, Bloomington, IN, USA

  • Venue:
  • CHI '10 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

This paper explores the relationship between personal identity and the act of appropriating digital objects in the home--specifically do-it-yourself--to inform the design of empowering products. It reports ongoing research and provides a preliminary analysis of the Steampunk movement as a case study for personal appropriation. Appropriation-identity design guidelines are provided as a result of the data analysis.