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The role of materiality within prototyping recently received a high degree of attention from HCI and design communities. Existing approaches have solely focussed on the materiality of artifacts produced during prototyping. This focus largely has left the materiality of designers and users unaccounted for. The text illustrates how the Somatic-Marker-Hypothesis and Actor-Network-Theory can be employed in order to illustrate these forgotten dimensions of materiality during prototyping: Not only is material shaped during construction of artefacts. Material modifications also comprise alterations within the material of designers’ and users’ bodies themselves. In order to facilitate these descriptions, a novel approach towards symmetry had to be developed.
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This publication was prepared as a part of the research initiative ValidAX, which is funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research and as a part of the Research Training Group Crossworlds, which is funded by DFG (German Research Foundation). The authors take sole responsibility for the contents of this publication.
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Berger, A., Heidt, M., Eibl, M. (2015). Conduplicated Symmetries: Renegotiating the Material Basis of Prototype Research. In: Chakrabarti, A. (eds) ICoRD’15 – Research into Design Across Boundaries Volume 1. Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, vol 34. Springer, New Delhi. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-2232-3_7
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