March 17, 2025

Lecture "Design/Undesign: Perspectives & Biases”

• Research is curiosity driven
• Behind every tool there is a designer
• 3D Printers couldn't be used before, because they were patented
• Women are left apart in Design or researches
  • Temperature in buildings are based on male well being
  • Voice recognition works less for women
  • Crash dummies are made based on male proportions
  • Symptoms of heart-attacks are different for women
  • Identical Products are more expensive for women “women-tax”
• Data feminism “Map of femicides”
• Persuasive Design
  • Cookies
  • Newsletters
  • Scores
  • Pressure from tracking
• Eco vs Ego
  • Ego → Pyramid, Man on top
  • Eco → Human equal as every other living creature

Reading "Reconstituting the Utopian Vision of Making: HCI After Technosolutionism”

The text is a critic of "making" within Human-Computer Interaction research. There is a belief that technology alone can solve complex social issues. In reality, Making is shaped by politics, culture, and business interests. In China "making" is tied to government policies and global manufacturing. In Taiwan it is connected to national identity and democracy. We should study both its benefits and problems while actively working to make it more inclusive and socially meaningful

March 19, 2025

Lecture "Ethnographic study &  Sense Making”

• We don’t see things as they are, we see things as we are
• Ethnography - foreign people
• User centered design —> observing what people are doing with design
• Behave so that people are not being observed
• Good design has the human perspective in mind