Abstract The body is a site on which ageing occurs and also the means by we navigate experience material world. As our bodies change as age, so too do experiences of (and interactions with) environment. This article presents findings from an ethnographic study everyday life among residents older people's home in northern England. I draw concept ‘embodied course’ (Marshall Katz 2012) to argue th...

Present knowledge about the marine ecosystem on the Norwegian Continental Shelf towards the Arctic is sparse. These areas are vast, remote and subject to harsh weather conditions. We report from a three-year case study of an ongoing effort for real-time, subsea environmental monitoring by an oil and gas operator. The ‘facts’ about the subsea environment are anything but neutral; they are intrin...

Using Lady Caroline Lamb as a case study, this essay models book historical approach to the author function and introduces concept of recuperative materiality—repairing one’s reputation through circulation material objects. It resituates within broad media context highlights her diverse creative output in sheet music, literary annuals, illustrations children’s books, an account book. These obje...

This thesis discusses the potential consequences of applying the philosophy of Mark C. Taylor to the field of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). The first part of the thesis comprises a study focusing on two discursive trends in contemporary HCI, materiality and the self, and how these discourses describe interaction. Through a qualitative, inductive content analysis of 171 HCI research articles...