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Into the Wild: Beyond the Design Research Lab pp 195–235Cite as

Orienting to the Wild

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Part of the book series: Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Ethics ((SAPERE,volume 48))

Abstract

Understandings of what ‘in the wild’ might mean differ enormously according to the kind of research being undertaken. This chapter inspects the orientations to the wild visible in various kinds of research deployments and assesses their implications. Very broadly, one can identify four potentially overlapping concerns: wanting to deploy a technology so that it will be seamlessly integrated into real-world activities; deploying a rather crude technology with an interest in finding out by doing so what it will take to make it fit; deploying a technology to encourage specific kinds of engagement that may or may not have any permanence; and deploying a technology with the express goal of being disruptive. Having examined how these orientations are visible in the literature the chapter goes into greater depth regarding two specific and contrasting deployments to examine the outcomes of different research orientations to the wild in greater depth. In particular, the chapter highlights the potential disjuncture between researcher orientations to the wild and the orientations of the inhabitants of the settings where research deployments take place and considers what the consequences of that might be.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    Much of the argument presented in this section originally appeared in a paper entitled ‘Unremarkable Computing’ presented at the ACM’s conference on human factors in computer systems (CHI) in 2002 (Tolmie et al. 2002).

  2. 2.

    There are a wide variety of possible discussions that might be had about what many disciplines routinely refer to as ‘perception’ or ‘apprehension’ actually turn upon. Here we are wholly concerned with the notion of ‘invisibility in use’ but for a deeper discussion of this issue the reader might usefully turn to a 1989 paper by Coulter and Parsons entitled ‘The Praxiology of perception’.

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The research reported in this chapter was originally funded by the EPRSC Equator IRC, www.equator.ac.uk and the EC’s Disappearing Computing programme, IST FET 2000 26,360, as part of the project MIME (Multiple Intimate Media Environments). My thanks also go to my original co-authors for the papers this chapter is built upon: Andy Crabtree, James Pycock, Tim Diggins, Allan Maclean and Alain Karsenty. Additional thanks to Jon O’Brien, Graham Button, Marge Eldridge, Bill Gaver, Geraldine Fitzpatrick and Mark Stringer. My thanks most especially to Alan Chamberlain for his remarkable forbearance.

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Tolmie, P. (2020). Orienting to the Wild. In: Chamberlain, A., Crabtree, A. (eds) Into the Wild: Beyond the Design Research Lab. Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Ethics, vol 48. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-18020-1_10

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