Alex S Taylor
Biographic Data
| ID | 188090 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alex S Taylor |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alex S |
| FAMILY NAME | Taylor |
| SIGNATURE | TAYLOR A S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Microsoft Research, UK |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 98 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The labor of tech
No abstract available
Surfacing Small Worlds through Data-In-Place
What Lines, Rats, and Sheep Can Tell Us
In his 2015 Research Through Design provocation, Tim Ingold invites his audience to think with string, lines, and meshworks. In this article I use Ingold's concepts to explore an orientation to design-one that threads through both Ingold's ideas and Vinciane Despret's vivid and moving accounts of human-animal relations. This is a "thinking and doing" through design that seeks to be expansive to the capacities of humans and non-humans in relation …
Data and life on the street
What does the abundance of data and proliferation of data-making methods mean for the ordinary person, the person on the street? And, what could they come to mean? In this paper, we present an overview of a year-long project to examine just such questions and complicate, in some ways, what it is to ask them. The project is a collective exercise in which we - a mixture of social scientists, designers and makers - and those living and working on on…
Binding and aging
In many respects, we take the age of things for granted. Age is assumed to be an inherent quality, dictated by the time a thing has been in existence and put to use. Many of us have even developed an appreciation for the wear associated with age. The worn leather covers of old books, their mottled pages and the creases along their spines are all considered, in some circles at least, to be signs of age and thus value. This article examines such id…
Demo hour
No abstract available
Driving and ‘Passengering
We spend ever‐increasing periods of our lives travelling in cars, yet quite what it is we do while travelling, aside from driving the vehicle itself, is largely overlooked. Drawing on analyses of video records of a series of quite ordinary episodes of car travel, in this paper we begin to document what happens during car journeys. The material concentrates on situations where people are travelling together in order to examine how social units suc…
Listening with indifference
In the following, we suggest that the product of ethnographies undertaken for commercial and industrial purposes is under threat of losing its integrity. The sorts of results furnished through 'applied ethnography' and those resulting from methods like focus groups, interviews, questionnaires, etc. appear largely of the same kind; they describe and codify the members of a setting and their behaviours, and differ, if at all, in terms of depth and …
Gift of the Gab
The Gift of the Gab
Driving and ‘Passengering
We spend ever‐increasing periods of our lives travelling in cars, yet quite what it is we do while travelling, aside from driving the vehicle itself, is largely overlooked. Drawing on analyses of video records of a series of quite ordinary episodes of car travel, in this paper we begin to document what happens during car journeys. The material concentrates on situations where people are travelling together in order to examine how social units suc…
Data and life on the street
What does the abundance of data and proliferation of data-making methods mean for the ordinary person, the person on the street? And, what could they come to mean? In this paper, we present an overview of a year-long project to examine just such questions and complicate, in some ways, what it is to ask them. The project is a collective exercise in which we - a mixture of social scientists, designers and makers - and those living and working on on…
What Lines, Rats, and Sheep Can Tell Us
In his 2015 Research Through Design provocation, Tim Ingold invites his audience to think with string, lines, and meshworks. In this article I use Ingold's concepts to explore an orientation to design-one that threads through both Ingold's ideas and Vinciane Despret's vivid and moving accounts of human-animal relations. This is a "thinking and doing" through design that seeks to be expansive to the capacities of humans and non-humans in relation …
Binding and aging
In many respects, we take the age of things for granted. Age is assumed to be an inherent quality, dictated by the time a thing has been in existence and put to use. Many of us have even developed an appreciation for the wear associated with age. The worn leather covers of old books, their mottled pages and the creases along their spines are all considered, in some circles at least, to be signs of age and thus value. This article examines such id…
Listening with indifference
In the following, we suggest that the product of ethnographies undertaken for commercial and industrial purposes is under threat of losing its integrity. The sorts of results furnished through 'applied ethnography' and those resulting from methods like focus groups, interviews, questionnaires, etc. appear largely of the same kind; they describe and codify the members of a setting and their behaviours, and differ, if at all, in terms of depth and …
The Gift of the Gab
Gift of the Gab
Listening with indifference
In the following, we suggest that the product of ethnographies undertaken for commercial and industrial purposes is under threat of losing its integrity. The sorts of results furnished through 'applied ethnography' and those resulting from methods like focus groups, interviews, questionnaires, etc. appear largely of the same kind; they describe and codify the members of a setting and their behaviours, and differ, if at all, in terms of depth and …
Driving and ‘Passengering
We spend ever‐increasing periods of our lives travelling in cars, yet quite what it is we do while travelling, aside from driving the vehicle itself, is largely overlooked. Drawing on analyses of video records of a series of quite ordinary episodes of car travel, in this paper we begin to document what happens during car journeys. The material concentrates on situations where people are travelling together in order to examine how social units suc…
Demo hour
No abstract available
Binding and aging
In many respects, we take the age of things for granted. Age is assumed to be an inherent quality, dictated by the time a thing has been in existence and put to use. Many of us have even developed an appreciation for the wear associated with age. The worn leather covers of old books, their mottled pages and the creases along their spines are all considered, in some circles at least, to be signs of age and thus value. This article examines such id…
Data and life on the street
What does the abundance of data and proliferation of data-making methods mean for the ordinary person, the person on the street? And, what could they come to mean? In this paper, we present an overview of a year-long project to examine just such questions and complicate, in some ways, what it is to ask them. The project is a collective exercise in which we - a mixture of social scientists, designers and makers - and those living and working on on…
Surfacing Small Worlds through Data-In-Place
What Lines, Rats, and Sheep Can Tell Us
In his 2015 Research Through Design provocation, Tim Ingold invites his audience to think with string, lines, and meshworks. In this article I use Ingold's concepts to explore an orientation to design-one that threads through both Ingold's ideas and Vinciane Despret's vivid and moving accounts of human-animal relations. This is a "thinking and doing" through design that seeks to be expansive to the capacities of humans and non-humans in relation …
The labor of tech
No abstract available
Computer Science (7 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Information Systems Theories and Implementation (3 works) · Innovative Human-Technology Interaction (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Advertising (2 works) · Artificial Intelligence (2 works) · Business (2 works) · Data science (2 works)