Re-scripting interactive artefacts with feminine values

  • Authors:
  • Majken Kirkegaard Rasmussen;Marianne Graves Petersen

  • Affiliations:
  • Aarhus School of Architecture, Aarhus, Denmark;Aarhus University, Aarhus N, Denmark

  • Venue:
  • DPPI '11 Proceedings of the 2011 Conference on Designing Pleasurable Products and Interfaces
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

This paper takes up the challenge, of developing value-centred interaction design as an approach to avoiding stereotypic presumptions about femininity when designing artefacts. We suggest that utilizing a feminine value perspective to design artefacts can create a richer profusion of ways to view technological artefacts and how they relate to our lives and our underlying assumptions about what is important and not and what is perceived as life quality. We present two examples of rescripting existing products to feminine values.