Sökning: "Michelle Westerlaken"

Hittade 2 uppsatser innehållade orden Michelle Westerlaken.

1. 1. Exploring the Mediating Role of Playful Technological Artefacts Designed for Animals and Humans

   Master-uppsats, Malmö högskola/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

   Författare :Michelle Westerlaken; [2015]
   Nyckelord :animal; computer; interaction; haraway; latour; ANT; interaction; design; annotated; video;

   Sammanfattning : In this thesis I investigate the mediating role of playful technological artefacts designed for animals and humans through theory and practice with the over-all aim to explore how we can design meaningful artefacts both for and with animals in order to better understand them and enrich or improve their lives.Starting from Bruno Latour’s Actor Network Theory, which offers a valuable starting point for the inclusion of both humans and nonhumans as actors in a shared network that is constantly being made and remade, I suggest adopting a more informed form of inevitable anthropomorphism in interaction design with animals. LÄS MER

3. 2. A New User Testing Methodology for Digitally Mediated Human-Animal Interaction

   Magister-uppsats, Malmö högskola/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

   Författare :Michelle Westerlaken; [2014]
   Nyckelord :animal; computer; interaction; design; digitally; mediated; cats; grounded theory;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis evaluates a novel methodology for the user testing of digitally mediated human-animal interactions. The proposed method includes the structural analysis of video observations following a Grounded Theory approach. LÄS MER