Aesthetic Perspectives on Participatory Design in the interLiving Project
Bo Westerlund, Sinna Lindquist · 2002
The interLiving project is an attempt to let families themselves influence and shape the design of communication technologies they will use. Families, and the individuals within them, represent a new user group for the researchers in interLiving. We are experimenting with different methods, to see which can be used successfully and which work less well. Aesthetics are very important to the families in our study, probably more so at home than in the workplace. The things in your home or the stuff you wear is used more to reveal your choices, tastes, desired identity, etc. We believe that it is important to take aesthetic considerations into account early in the research. But since this field is rather new we would like to discuss in what ways this could best be achieved.