Staying open to interpretation: engaging multiple meanings in design and evaluation

By Phoebe Sengers, William W. Gaver. Symposium on Designing Interactive Systems, 2006

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How emotion is made and measured (2007, background): “These accounts may not converge on one, single, correct interpretation but instead leave open the opportunity to play those interpretations off of each other in developing a rich account of system use (Sengers and Gaver, 2006).”
An analysis and critique of Research through Design: towards a formalization of a research approach (2010, background): “Participants mentioned work on tangible interaction, particularly Ishii’s work on the glass bottles [22, 23], and they mentioned the work on design for appropriation, a guiding philosophy about products that are designed without an intended use, allowing users to invent their own meanings and uses [”
Uncomfortable interactions (2012, background): “Sengers and Gaver have discussed how interactive artworks tend to provoke interpretation rather than directly giving information [33].”
Empathy and experience in HCI (2008, background): “They become part of a rich, ongoing dialogue of many voices – designers, users, cultural commentators – making sense of a design and how it is experienced [28, 47].”
Epistemic values in feature importance methods: Lessons from feminist epistemology (2021, background): “in [65], the frequencies of various email categories were represented by changes in a plant’s shape.”