Author: Katrin Kober
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Research Focus: The Agency of Tools in Making
One of our research foci foregrounds the role of tools as active participants in making and digital fabrication contexts. Drawing on feminist and sociomaterial perspectives, we examine how tools co-produce practices and relations within making environments, thereby shaping access to knowledge and communities as well as possibilities for materially grounded action. One strand of this…
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Unlikely Alliances: A Tool-centered Approach to Collaborative Agencies in Improbable Constellations
What if tools were active collaborators – accomplices of users in gaining access to technology and co-designing desired futures? Through her PhD project Katrin Nora Kober explores the agency of tools in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and Interaction Design (IxD), challenging traditional human-centered perspectives by positioning tools as agents within dynamic networks of human and non-human…
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