Archy: Making Invisible Hierarchies Perceivable

Research  –  Tangible User Interface

Archy is a counterfactual artifact and served as a hybrid research product to explore if practices can also be performed by smart products. Social theory currently only attributes this ability to humans, but with the uprise of smart products people might perceive them as performing their own practices .

Course: Researching the Future Everyday
Team: Simone Ooms, Dillon Shieh & Anniek Jansen
Supervised by: Emilia Viaene & Lenneke Kuijer

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Archy is a counterfactual artifact and served as a hybrid research product to explore if practices can also be performed by smart products. Social theory currently only attributes this ability to humans, but with the uprise of smart products people might perceive them as performing their own practices.

Course: Researching the Future Everyday
Team: Simone Ooms, Dillon Shieh & Anniek Jansen
Supervised by: Emilia Viaene & Lenneke Kuijer

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Participants visualized their perceived hierarchy
Participants visualized their perceived hierarchy
hierarchy table
The sam scales used during the experiment
The sam scales used during the experiment
Anova tests for level of control felt by the participants
Anova tests for level of control felt by the participants
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