Papers by Barith Ball
Probing the Pandemic: Participants as Ethnographers at Home
This thesis aimed to investigate ways to conduct participatory research practices that would gain... more This thesis aimed to investigate ways to conduct participatory research practices that would gain knowledge of participants' relationships and experiences with/in their physical home environment by using a design probe. Through the probe, a new approach to participatory design research was formulated. This approach gives agency to participants through elements of auto-ethnography, thus shifting the traditional power structures that often exist between participants and designers. This new type of research could yield greater intimacy and mutuality between designers and their participants. Due to this, it has the potential to be meaningful when designing for the home environment, and therefore can be used for research and design within the Internet of Things
Prototyping for Wellbeing: A Bodily Approach to Urban Design
Malmö universitet/Kultur och samhälle, 2020
In this work assessment of efficiency of introduction of the concept of World Class Manufacturing... more In this work assessment of efficiency of introduction of the concept of World Class Manufacturing (WCM) on the example of LLC Unilever Rus subsidiary Kalina. Object of research are optimization of production and logistic processes, WCM defining formation at the enterprise. Subject of investigation is optimization of production and logistic processes, WCM defining formation at the enterprise. Target of a research is the LLC «Unilever Rus» Kalina. In the course a research the materials received in the course of practical work, given to financial statements are applied.
Thesis Chapters by Barith Ball
Interactions as Swarms: Neurodiverging HCI, 2023
This thesis aims to reconsider the binary way HCI approaches interaction in a world with ever eme... more This thesis aims to reconsider the binary way HCI approaches interaction in a world with ever emerging technologies, e.g virtual reality. Taking inspiration from disability studies and cyborg theory, I present the Neurodivergent individual as a cyborg, and their brain as technology. Building on postphenomenological ideas, the neurodivergent brain is in fact a technological mediator between the individual and the world. By applying
postphenomenological concepts and connecting these with approaches from human-computer interaction, I
build an analytical approach that attempts to demonstrate what happens when we investigate the human brain as technology. Interviewing fellow neurodivergents, I discover mundane life is all about entanglements held together by interactions in increasing liminality. As digital technologies bring this liminality to totality, I propose the concept of interactions as swarms, and call for neurodiverging HCI.
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Papers by Barith Ball
Thesis Chapters by Barith Ball
postphenomenological concepts and connecting these with approaches from human-computer interaction, I
build an analytical approach that attempts to demonstrate what happens when we investigate the human brain as technology. Interviewing fellow neurodivergents, I discover mundane life is all about entanglements held together by interactions in increasing liminality. As digital technologies bring this liminality to totality, I propose the concept of interactions as swarms, and call for neurodiverging HCI.