ACM Interactions

Contributor: Nicolas Nova

Curator/Editor: Anne Spaa

Genre: Ethnography

Some questions to ask every designer: How would you anticipate that people will repurpose urban infrastructure for their own digital needs? To what end will people rearrange everyday objects for their own needs and purposes? Wrapping one's phone in a plastic bag to protect it from rain falling on an outdoor power station is a good example of a behavior no one really expected.

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