Futurehomestories: Designing Co-Creation

The futurehomestories project was part of the network for integrated research. The overarching goal of this was the conception, implementation and establishment of integrated research, with the aim of achieving a comprehensive research concept for integrated research.

Futurehomestories dealt critically with various aspects of integrated research and strives for transdisciplinary adaptation, implementation, reflection and the transfer of co-creation methodologies. For this it esd important to establish ethical, legal and social aspects in the co-creation process and its reflection. Overall, the aim was to further advance integrated research.

The project was divided into four successive phases and two work areas that extend over the entire duration of the project.

Phase 1: Preparing the project.

Phase 2: Conception and implementation of the co-design workshops.

Phase 3: Revision of the concept and renewed implementation of workshops.

Phase 4: Follow-up of the findings from the previous phases and knowledge transfer in science and society.

 

Process-accompanying phases

Communication and cooperation between researchers from different disciplines was ensured for the entire duration of the project. Furthermore, a continuous exchange with the general public and the specialist audience could take place.

 

Duration

April, 1st 2021 until June, 30th 2024

Schulte, B., Becker, A., Haupt, B., Berger, A., & Pentzold, C. (2024). futurehomestories: Integrierte Forschung als Co-Creation Praxis. Abschlussbericht zum Projekt futurehomestories. Hochschule Anhalt, Köthen. http://dx.doi.org/10.25673/116480

 

Bischof, A., Köpferl, K., Haupt, B., Becker, A., Pentzold, C., & Berger, A., (2024). Partizipative Wissenschaftskommunikation für (zukünftige) Technologien. In S. Kernebeck & F. Fischer (Hrsg.) Partizipative Technikentwicklung im Sozial- und Gesundheitswesen: Interdisziplinäre Konzepte und Methoden (1. Auflage, S. 161-174). Hogrefe Verlag, Bern. Mehr

Haupt, B., Pentzold,C., Becker, A. & Berger, A. (2023). Designing alternative future home stories. INFORMATIK 2023 - Designing Futures: Zukünfte gestalten. DOI: 10.18420/inf2023_99. Bonn: Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V.. PISSN: 1617-5468. ISBN: 978-3-88579-731-9. pp. 893-898. Kultur & Design - Designing alternative future home stories. Berlin. 26.-29. September 2023. https://doi.org/10.18420/inf2023_99

 

Becker, A., Haupt, B., Berger, A. & Pentzold, C. (2022). Future home stories: participatory predicaments and methodological scaffolding in narrative speculation on alternative domestic lives. Digital Creativity, 33(3), 276–294. https://doi.org/10.1080/14626268.2022.2082488

Open workshop - Analysing multimaterial collages of the Cultural Probe adaptation ‘Little Boxes’

Futurehomestories organised an open workshop on 16.5.24 with experts in participatory design methods on the possibilities of analysing multimaterial collages.

The event focussed on the Cultural Probe variation ‘Little Boxes’ developed in the project. 

Over the course of the project, the Little Boxes were sent to many participants throughout Germany, resulting in very creative and diverse collages. How to develop analytical approaches for such creative materials was a central question of the open workshop.

Firstly, the experts were able to explore the Little Boxes themselves and thus take on a participant role. In doing so, they created their own collages, which were exhibited together with the previously collected data materials from the Little Boxes as part of this closed event. In the second part of the event, the experiences gained from their own experimentation and the impressions from the exhibition then served as an impetus for a joint discussion on how to deal with the collages as scientific data.

In the exchange about the content, structure and materiality of the collages, the experts emphasised the tension between the enormous creativity of the participants and the rationality of established narratives on IoT applications.

For further work with the collages, even beyond futurehomestories, it is therefore not only important to show how cultural sample applications can be analysed, but also to appreciate the creative performance of the individual participants in the evaluation itself.

Workshop - On a sustained dissemination and sharing of co-design methods

Chemnitz 24.11.23, 9.00-10.30 Uhr

Haupt, B., Becker, A., Pentzold, C. and Berger, A.

Immense efforts have been undertaken to increase citizen participation in science, which is reflected in the multitude of existing collaborative approaches. This issue has been pointed out specifically in regard to creative approaches: “Design methods are like toothbrushes. Everyone uses them, but no one likes to use someone else’s” (John Zimmermann as cited in Harrison & Tatar, 2011). Not much has changed since this critique – a lot of new co-design methods have been created with little dissemination. 

Even when only considering collaborative inquiries regarding the smart home, admittedly only a small part of the IoT development, there are numerous approaches: collaborative ethnography (Lee & Šabanović, 2013), design drama (Coughlan et al., 2014), design fiction probe (Schulte et al. 2016), empathy workshop (Ghajargar et al., 2017), co-design fiction (Søndergaard & Hansen, 2018), bespoke booklets (Desjardins et al., 2019), deep hanging out sessions (Odom et al., 2019), design fiction probe (Noortman et al., 2019), speculative futures workshops (Kozubaev et al., 2019), un-kit (Ambe et al., 2019), story completion (Cambre et al., 2020), data epics (Desjardins & Biggs, 2021), data slots (https://dataslots.org/). This panoply of ventures illustrates the enormous range of methods.

In our contribution, we attempt to counteract this trend toward ad-hoc and idiosyncratic proposals that have little effect beyond single research units and teams. Rather than coming up with the next new method, we aim to show that by adapting existing methods and building on each other's approaches, there is no need to follow the apparent necessity of inventing new methods for new projects. Instead, the focus is on sustainability and re-use. In this workshop we demonstrated the result of our adaptation processes of the IoT Service Kit (https://iotservicekit.com/).

There, we concentrated on narrative aspects of future scenarios but kept the core concept of the original tool so as to enable participants to explain their imaginaries. The adapted toolkit consists of tiles to create a floorplan, cards to represent technologies like sensors or actuators, and tokens to represent actors. The storytelling and creation of scenarios unfolds in a process of speculation. 

In the first part of the workshop, participants explored the adapted method in small groups. By letting them experience this version, we aimed to show how an adaptation can make use of an original method and can help to explore its scope and possibilities.

In the second part of the workshop, we challenged the question set down in the CfP How co-design approaches can be shared and disseminated in an accessible and sustained manner? We planed for an open discussion on the following aspects:

• accessibility and availability in light of small numbers or prototype states of many tools,
• lack of documentation for a lot of methods regarding facilitation despite its crucial role for the success of workshops,
• challenges of defining mandatory elements of tools and methods due to their various materialities,
• sharing methods not as copy but adaptation for one's own research – like Mattelmäki (2005) or Lucero et al. (2007) already pointed out in regard to the Cultural Probes approach (see Gaver et al., 1999).

The workshop anchored this discussion. We mapped the results to identify challenges and possible solutions for sharing approaches in an accessible way. The mapping was distributed among participants. The workshop was held in german.

You can find further Information here.

 

References

Ambe, A. H., Brereton, M., Soro, A., Chai, M. Z., Buys, L., & Roe, P. (2019). Older People Inventing their Personal Internet of Things with the IoT Un-Kit Experience. CHI ’19: Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1145/3290605.3300552

Cambre, J., Reig, S., Kravitz, Q., & Kulkarni, C. (2020). “All Rise for the AI Director”: Eliciting Possible Futures of Voice Technology through Story Completion. DIS ’20: Proceedings of the 2020 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference, 2051–2064. https://doi.org/10.1145/3357236.3395479

Coughlan, T., Brown, M., McAuley, D., Baurley, S., Tsai, A., Koppe, T., Elliott, M., Green, S., Martin, J., & Lawson, G. (2014). Living with the user: Design drama for dementia care through responsive scripted experiences in the home. UbiComp ’14 Adjunct: Proceedings of the 2014 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing: Adjunct Publication, 35–38. https://doi.org/10.1145/2638728.2638750

Data Slots. (n.d.). [Educational Gaming Website]. Data Slots. Retrieved June 28, 2023, from https://data-slots.web.app

Desjardins, A., & Biggs, H. R. (2021). Data Epics: Embarking on Literary Journeys of Home Internet of Things Data. CHI ’21: Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1145/3411764.3445241

Desjardins, A., Key, C., Biggs, H. R., & Aschenbeck, K. (2019). Bespoke Booklets: A Method for Situated Co-Speculation. DIS ’19: Proceedings of the 2019 on Designing Interactive Systems Conference, 697–709. https://doi.org/10.1145/3322276.3322311

Gaver, B., Dunne, T., & Pacenti, E. (1999). Design: Cultural probes. Interactions, 6(1), 21–29. https://doi.org/10.1145/291224.291235

Ghajargar, M., Longo, L., Gargiulo, E., & Giannantonio, R. (2017). Empathy Workshop: When Project team and Pilot Users Exchange Experiences. The Design Journal, 20(sup1), 3837–3848. https://doi.org/10.1080/14606925.2017.1352887

Harrison, S., & Tatar, D. (2011). On methods. Interactions, 18(2), 10–11. https://doi.org/10.1145/1925820.1925823

IoT Service Kit. (n.d.). [Landingpage]. IoT Service Kit. Retrieved June 28, 2023, from https://iotservicekit.com/

Kozubaev, S., Rochaix, F., DiSalvo, C., & Le Dantec, C. A. (2019). Spaces and Traces: Implications of Smart Technology in Public Housing. CHI ’19: Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 1–13. https://doi.org/10.1145/3290605.3300669

Lee, H. R., & Šabanović, S. (2013). Weiser’s dream in the Korean home: Collaborative study of domestic roles, relationships, and ideal technologies. UbiComp ’13: Proceedings of the 2013 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing, 637–646. https://doi.org/10.1145/2493432.2493499

Lucero, A., Lashina, T., Diederiks, E., & Mattelmäki, T. (2007). How probes inform and influence the design process. DPPI ’07: Proceedings of the 2007 Conference on Designing Pleasurable Products and Interfaces, 377–391. https://doi.org/10.1145/1314161.1314195

Mattelmäki, T. (2005). Applying probes – from inspirational notes to collaborative insights. CoDesign, 1(2), 83–102. https://doi.org/10.1080/15719880500135821

Noortman, R., Schulte, B. F., Marshall, P., Bakker, S., & Cox, A. L. (2019). HawkEye—Deploying a Design Fiction Probe. CHI ’19: Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1145/3290605.3300652

Odom, W., Anand, S., Oogjes, D., & Shin, J. (2019). Diversifying the Domestic: A Design Inquiry into Collective and Mobile Living. DIS ’19: Proceedings of the 2019 on Designing Interactive Systems Conference, 1377–1390. https://doi.org/10.1145/3322276.3323687

Schulte, B. F., Marshall, P., & Cox, A. L. (2016). Homes For Life: A Design Fiction Probe. NordiCHI ’16: Proceedings of the 9th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, 1–10. https://doi.org/10.1145/2971485.2993925

Søndergaard, M. L. J., & Hansen, L. K. (2018). Intimate Futures: Staying with the Trouble of Digital Personal Assistants through Design Fiction. DIS ’18: Proceedings of the 2018 Designing Interactive Systems Conference, 869–880. https://doi.org/10.1145/3196709.3196766

Workshop - Designing alternative future home stories

Berlin 29.09.23

Haupt, B., Becker, A., Pentzold, C. and Berger, A.

Usually the smart home imaginaries portray nuclear families living in detached houses with a focus on efficiency and energy. In this workshop, we follow the co-design approach to imagine alternative future homes beyond this stereotype. First, we brainstorm the concept of home addressing idiosyncratic needs and expectations. Second, we try three co-design tool adaptations in small groups which allow us to collaboratively imagine speculative futures. LittleBoxes is a cultural probe variation with which participants can configure a speculative future by using inspirational and technological materials. The Tiles Iot Inventor Toolkit adaptation helps to tell detailed stories of how to possibly live with technology in the future. With the Iot Service Kit adaption participants are able to build speculative home scenarios and playfully explore imaginary future technologies within them. There will be two rounds of co-designing, so every participant will explore two of the toolkits. In the last part, we reflect on the experiences as well as discuss if and how participants could imagine adapting the introduced tools beyond the workshop.

Background

Current smart home innovations often advertise solutions for comfort, security, and efficiency [Li21], [LPH21], [Mc23]. The underlying image of the inhabitants of such homes is very limited and they are often portrayed as a family living in a detached house [De19], [Mc23]. By treating smart home inhabitants only as users and consumers we perpetuate the underlying heteronormative and capitalist values already inscribed in prevailing smart home visions [Be22]. In doing so, the actual needs and wishes of people as well as the personal idiosyncrasies of homes are not reflected in smart home technologies. But how can future smart homes be envisioned and materialized so as to consider alternative forms of living as well as the individual needs of people in their home?

In recent years HCI and design researchers have developed a multitude of approaches and methods in attempting to broaden the view and gain a deeper understanding of how to move beyond narrow marked driven smart home schemes [DWO15], [LPH21], [SAO19]. These approaches draw on collaborative creative processes [SS14] with the aim to create new technological setups for what they consider alternative homes. 

In this workshop, we built on the approaches of speculative design and co-design ventures [LC15], [SS08] as well as on work of human-computer interaction and research-through-design. The twist of this workshop however was, rather than demonstrating a newly developed method of co-creatively addressing the aforementioned issues regarding smart home visions, we adapted existing co-design methods and shifted the focus to a narrative perspective which enabled participants to speculate and told stories about their individual visions of future smart home technologies.

By scaffolding a storytelling process participants were empowered to concretize their imaginaries and detail the diegetic contexts in which speculative technologies could be used without flattening the rich field of possible future modes of IoT-enhanced dwelling [Be22]. Furthermore, by demonstrating our narrative adaptations of co-design approaches we wanted to show the versatility such methods can yield if they are appropriated and tweaked for a certain research interest.

Aim of the Workshop

In the workshop, we challenged conceptions of home. By sharing and reflecting individual perspectives, we attempted to uncover the underlying assumptions in order to gain new insights and further develop everyone's individual concept of home.

The workshop addressed the following questions a) What/where is home? b) What is a standard home? c) What is an alternative home? d) What makes home home? e) How can we imagine and narrate future homes? f) How can alternative imaginaries of smart homes be materialized? g) What roles does/can technology play in the home? h) What makes the smart home ‘smart’? i) What does this implicate for the interactions with technologies in the home?

To think beyond contemporary imaginaries of smart home technologies, three co-design tools and methods were provided. Participants had the opportunity to explore and try out two of the methods and speculate on their future homes in a playful manner. The tools enabled the participants to express their wishes and needs regarding how they want to live with technology in a home of the future. The methodical scaffolding supported participants in imagining and exploring smart home scenarios in novel ways to create stories about the speculative everyday life in them. 

In detail, the three tools that were available in the workshop are: LittleBoxes – a cultural probe variation with which participants can configure a speculative future by using inspirational and technological materials [GDP99]. The Tiles Iot Inventor Toolkit adaptation which enables people to tell detailed stories of how to possibly live with technology in the future [MGD17], [Pl23]. With the Iot Service Kit adaption participants are able to build speculative home scenarios and playfully explore imaginary future technologies within them [Io23].

Schedule of Workshop

The workshop will be held in-person on Friday, 29.09.23, 10 am to 5 pm. The workshop will be in German, as are all the tools and methods.

• Morning 10 am to 11 am
• Welcome and introduction to the workshop, hosts & participants
• Brief and general overview on co-design methods and toolkits for the IoT
• Brainstorming about the concept of the home, guided by four questions
• Coffeebreak 11 am to 11.30 am
• Noon 11.30 am to 12.30 am
• Participants will be split in small groups
• First round of try-outs with one of the tools and methods
• Participants can choose between an adaption of The Tiles IoT Inventor Toolkit, an adaption of the IoT Service Kit and a cultural probe called LittleBoxes
• Each method will be facilitated by one of the hosts
• Lunchbreak 12.30 am to 2 pm
• Afternoon 2 pm to 3.30 pm
• Participants will be split in small groups
• Second round of try-outs with one of the tools and methods
• Participants can choose between an adaption of The Tiles IoT Inventor Toolkit, an adaption of the IoT Service Kit and a cultural probe called LittleBoxes
• Each method will be facilitated by one of the hosts
• Coffeebreak 3.30 pm to 4.30 pm
• Reflection & Wrap Up 4.30 pm to 5 pm
• We encourage participants to reflect with us about their experiences of the workshop & to connect with each other beyond the workshop

References & Post-Workshop Plans

During the workshop the process will be audio recorded and photographed. The results will be documented on post-its and canvas as well as on photos. The photographed results will be shared with the workshop participants. A data privacy statement will be provided as well as a table to fill in the email address if the participant would like to receive the documentation of the workshop. 

[Be22] Becker, A.; Haupt, B.; Berger, A.; Pentzold, C.:  Future home stories: participatory predicaments and methodological scaffolding in narrative speculation on alternative domestic lives, Digital Creativity, 2022. doi.org/10.1080/14626268.2022.2082488

[De19] Desjardins, A.; Viny, J.; Key, C.; Johnston, N.: Alternative Avenues for IoT: Designing with Non-Stereotypical Homes. Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '19). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, pp. 1-13, 2019. doi.org/10.1145/3290605.3300581 

[DWO15] Desjardins, A.; Wakkary, R.; Odom, W.: Investigating Genres and Perspectives in HCI Research on the Home. Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pp. 3073-3082, 2015. doi.org/10.1145/2702123.2702540

[GDP99] Gaver, B.; Dunne, T.; Pacenti, E.: Design: Cultural probes. interactions 6/1, pp. 21-29, 1999. doi.org/10.1145/291224.291235

[Io23] IoT Service Kit, Creating IoT Services has never been easier, iotservicekit.com   accessed 22/02/2023.

[LC15] Lindley, J.; Coulton, P.: Back to the Future: 10 Years of Design Fiction. Proceedings of the 2015 British HCI Conference, pp. 210-211, 2015. doi.org/10.1145/2783446.2783592

[Li21] Li, W.; Yigitcanlar, T.; Erol. I.; Liu, A.: Motivations, Barriers and Risks of Smart Home Adoption: From Systematic Literature Review to Conceptual Framework. Energy Research & Social Science 80, 2021. doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2021.102211 

[LPH21] Lupton, D.; Pink,S.; Horst, H.: Living in, With and Beyond the ‘Smart Home’. Convergence 27/5, pp. 1147–1154, 2021. doi:10.17/13548565211052736

[Mc23] McKinsey & Company, The Connected Smart Home Market, www.mckinsey.com/spcontent/connected_homes/pdf/mckinsey_connectedhome.pdf, accessed 22/02/23

[MGD17] Mora, S.; Gianni, F.; Divitini, M.: Tiles: A Card-based Ideation Toolkit for the Internet of Things. Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (DIS '17), pp. 587-598, 2017. doi.org/10.1145/3064663.3064699

[Pl23] Play with Tiles IoT Inventor Toolkit. Change the world!, www.tilestoolkit.io  accessed 22/02/2023

[SAO19] Shin, J.; Aceves Sepúlveda, G.; Odom, W.: Collective Wisdom: Inquiring Into Collective Homes as a Site for HCI Design. Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing systems, pp. 1-14, 2019. doi.org/10.1145/3290605.3300546 

[SS08] Sanders, E. B.-N.; Stappers, P. J.: Co-creation and the new landscapes of design. CoDesign, 4/1, pp. 5-18, 2008. doi.org/10.1080/15710880701875068

[SS14] Sanders, E. B.-N.; Stappers, P. J.: Probes, toolkits and prototypes: three approaches to making in codesigning, CoDesign, 10/1, pp. 5-14, 2014. doi.org/10.1080/15710882.2014.888183

Contact

Alexa Becker: alexa.becker(at)uni-leipzig.de
Benedikt Haupt: benedikt.haupt(at)uni-leipzig.de

Reflecting on and shaping human-technology relationships in a transdisciplinary way

Integrated research - what does this mean for the actors and the structures of research? And what conditions do researchers need in order to be able to consistently implement the idea of integrated research? For almost three years, the two sub-clusters 1 and 2 of the Integrated Research Cluster have been investigating the individual questions on this topic. On January 31 and February 1, 2024, they presented their preliminary results at the 4th symposium on Integrated Research: "Reflecting on and shaping human-technology relationships in a transdisciplinary way". The third sub-cluster, which has just been launched, also introduced itself and gave an outlook on the direction of its projects."

 

Symposium on Integrated Research on 28.02. and 01.03.2023 at the Technoseum Mannheim

At the specialist conference ‘Digitalised Living Environments and Integrative Technology Development’, which was organised by the BMBF Integrated Research Cluster, the cluster's colleagues discussed and presented ethical, legal and social aspects of technology development. The conference was rounded off by the evening event ‘Pick your Scientist’, which was open to the public.

 

Between Empowerment and Responsibility

The ESTER and futurehomestories projects are co-hosting a two-day workshop at the INSIST 2022 conference on Oct. 6-7, 2022.

On the first workshop day, participants imagined and speculated about the home of the future. For this purpose, the adaptation of the co-design tool "Tiles IoT Inventor Toolkit" developed by futurehomestories was used, which enabled collaborative ideation. Based on the stories imagined by the participants about speculative and highly idiosyncratic smart homes of the future, the implications contained in the designs were then be jointly reflected upon. For this purpose, an extension of the co-design tool originating from the ESTER project was be used.

The second day of the workshop focused on science communication. Central questions here included: To whom are the results of such collaborative creative processes communicated? In what form does the communication take place? Where, when, and with what goal and benefit is it communicated?

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State Stduent Academy in Köthen

As part of the State Student Academy on 20.7.2022 in Köthen at the Anhalt University of Applied Sciences, futurehomestories was conducting a co-design workshop with students. The adaptation of the "Tiles IoT Inventor Toolkit" developed in the project was applied here. In addition, the background of participatory co-design methods was conveyed. In two small groups the students explored the tool and design different ideas and scenarios about living with technology in speculative future smart homes.

 

Café Session in Tübingen

futurehomestories organized a workshop on the home of the future in a relaxed atmosphere in a café in Tübingen on July 11, 2022. In the co-design session, a story about everyday life in a speculative, highly idiosyncratic smart home was devised together with the participants.

 

Futurehomestories as guest in the city lab MitchmachX

Under the direction of futurehomestories, a participatory workshop took place on 1.6.2022 at the city laboratory MitmachX in Chemnitz. Together with senior citizens, they speculated on possible stories about the home of the future. The basis for this co-design workshop was the adaptation of the "Tiles IoT Inventor Toolkit" developed in the project, which supported the seniors in expressing their wishes and ideas.

To the Chemnitz city lab

 

Law by Design Workshop

In the spirit of interdisciplinary competence building, the projects RechTech and futurehomestories organized a workshop on the topic: What can law and design learn from each other? This workshop took place online on 15.03.2022 due to the pandemic. Scientists from the fields of law, design and other disciplines speculated together about a smartwatch for a policewoman. Especially the contained implications as well as resulting consequences represented a central aspect of the collaborative reflection. The workshop promoted interdisciplinary exchange and leads to stronger networking and integration of the subcluster projects of the Integrated Research Cluster.

 

IASDR Conference 2021

Diversifying Approaches to Co-Designing the Smart Everyday 

• Aim: Explores the goals and values of co-design tools for domestic smart objects and services from a non-Western perspective.
• Access the conference paper here.

Co-Designing for the Smart Home - Research Module Digital Media and Networked Communication Practices II

The seminar focuses on the exploration of creative methods for co-designing digital technologies. At their core, these new methods are about fostering creativity and enabling participation in the innovation of digital technologies. The seminar focuses specifically on the smart home, where a variety of technologies are used to support domestic activities and personal life. First, existing concepts of the smart home are discussed and critically reflected upon, and an understanding of participatory design methods is developed. Students explore the tools and use them practically in their own research project to survey them. In this project phase, students conduct their own co-design workshops in the context of the smart home.

The smart everyday – participatory research and the IoT (Research Module Digital Media and Networked Communication Practices II (Master's program in Communication and Media Studies) 

The module deals with two fields of innovation: the IoT and participatory methods. IoT applications permeate everyday life and turn communicative places into media. Participatory research is becoming increasingly important in other disciplines beyond design fields. It enables people to be actively involved in research processes at eye level. The seminar will discuss the basics, methods and applications of participatory approaches in media and communication studies.

Futurehomestories is a joint project of the Institute for Communication and Media Studies (IfKMW) at the University of Leipzig and the Department of Computer Science and Languages at the Anhalt University of Applied Sciences (Koethen). The futurehomestories project is part of the network for integrated research.

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