Multi-Sited Design: An Approach Towards Addressing Design-Use Relations in Transnational Processes

In this paper, we suggest that contemporary transnational arrangements provide new challenges for the design researcher. In particular, questions of design-use relations become potentially even more politicized and complex as they enter a global stage. In HCI, we lack conceptual tools for understanding these complex webs of multi-sited technology use and design. We draw from ethnographic fieldwork in China, critical work in HCI and anthropology to suggest a starting point in encountering and dealing with some of these challenges. Author