My Spider "Net Friend": Designing More-than-Human Social Media for Human-Spider Entanglement

More-than-human design acknowledges the entanglements between human and nonhuman entities, prompting designers to explore how existing human-centered technologies can be reimagined to foster interdependent relationships between humans and non-humans. In this paper, we present an ongoing project speculating a more-than-human social media platform, which seeks to integrate spiders inhabit domestic environments into everyday social media networks. We aim to cultivate a sense of interconnection and prompt humans to acknowledge the presence and well-being of spiders, thus addressing the entanglements of humans and non-humans in shared spaces. In our design process, there has been a significant transformation. Our experience reveals the agency of more-than-human entities, which urges designers, as speaking subjects, to shift their design decisions. This design proposal emerged from insights gathered through a prior design prototype. We also discuss how we respond to and reflect on these complexities and conflicts when integrating human-centered technologies into more-than-human world.

• Publication year

  2024

• Venue

  Proceedings of the Twelfth International Symposium of Chinese CHI

• Publication date

  2024-11-22

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  DOI 10.1145/3758871.3758944
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