Agency and the User-Designer Relationship in Co-Created Wellness Spaces
2019-05
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Agency and the User-Designer Relationship in Co-Created Wellness Spaces
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In this study I adapted the work of Wilson, Rawlins, and Crane (2018) to explore the cocreated wellness space of the Apple Watch Activity Rings. I examined the agential roles and
relationships between users and designers and the Activity Rings’ agential scripts while
incorporating coded questions to determine the presence of usefulness, control, and
agency. Research question: How do users perceive and understand their agency and control,
their relationship to the designer, and the Activity Rings’ agential scripts? The findings of this
exploratory study suggest that users possess agency that they do not fully recognize and that they
more strongly perceive the influence of the Activity Rings than the that of the designer.
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Carlson, Erik, C.. (2019). Agency and the User-Designer Relationship in Co-Created Wellness Spaces. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/202779.
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