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Greetings from Silicon Heaven: Postcards from the IoT Afterlife

Primlani, Namrata; Darzentas, Dimitrios Paris; Lindley, Joseph; Coulton, Paul; Sailaja, Neelima; Urquhart, Lachlan D.; Castle-Green, Teresa; Stead, Michael; Lechelt, Susan; Owen, Violet; Dubey, Nidhi

Authors

Namrata Primlani

Joseph Lindley

Paul Coulton

Neelima Sailaja

Lachlan D. Urquhart

Teresa Castle-Green

Michael Stead

Susan Lechelt

Violet Owen

Nidhi Dubey



Abstract

As the importance of minimising e-waste and increasing sustainability increase, exploring the design matters impacting the transience of digital technologies has become a key concern. In this workshop we will explore this through the metaphorical lens of the lives, deaths, and afterlives of electronic objects. The workshop creatively engages with this by participants creating obituaries for IoT objects and postcards from the afterlife that will help us question the emotional, ethical, aesthetic and ecological implications of objects reaching the end of their life. Drawing upon our work for the EPSRC Fixing the Future Project, we anticipate that the discussions and collaborations that emerge through the workshop will generate design themes that contribute to the wider agendas and communities advocating for the Right-to-Repair of IoT devices globally.

Citation

Primlani, N., Darzentas, D. P., Lindley, J., Coulton, P., Sailaja, N., Urquhart, L. D., Castle-Green, T., Stead, M., Lechelt, S., Owen, V., & Dubey, N. (2024, October). Greetings from Silicon Heaven: Postcards from the IoT Afterlife. Presented at NordiCHI Adjunct 2024: Nordic Conference on Human Computer Interaction, Uppsala, Sweden

Presentation Conference Type Conference Paper (published)
Conference Name NordiCHI Adjunct 2024: Nordic Conference on Human Computer Interaction
Start Date Oct 13, 2024
End Date Oct 16, 2024
Online Publication Date Oct 13, 2024
Publication Date Oct 13, 2024
Deposit Date Oct 8, 2024
Publicly Available Date Oct 8, 2024
Publisher Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Book Title NordiCHI '24 Adjunct: Adjunct Proceedings of the 2024 Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction
ISBN 9798400709654
DOI https://doi.org/10.1145/3677045.3685474

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