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An Actor-Network Rings configuration, depicting the fast-food and health-eating support networks. Photograph © Ayşe Özge Ağça, used with permission.
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While ethnographers and the data they produce already play a role in affecting industry practices, there is potential to integrate anthropological ways of seeing and knowing into a shared transdisciplinary design praxis. In a series of design research experiments, we have taken a pragmatic and playful approach to physicalizing theory. The result is...
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... went on to show how the users' experience with healthy eating stood in contrast to another network users tend to rely on for food, namely the fast-food network. The point was made very tangible toward the end of their audition as a small wooden ball balanced delicately on the many pins supporting the fast-food network, while a big ball in the central network -representing the program of action "healthy eating"--had few pins to support it and fell heavily onto the table [ Figure 4]. The audience felt the weight of this particular program of action and the lack of support currently on offer to users. ...
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... The participants could therefore provide more detailed information regarding hardware and software aspects. • Stimulating the conversations: Sorenson et al. (2022) suggests that providing tangible materials and utilizing them as an elicitation technique releases some of the researcher's control over the gathered data). The tokens are designed to foster hands-on interaction with abstract concepts, thereby enabling researchers to gather richer data and achieve more profound reflections (Conrad and Tucker, 2019). ...
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