How Students in Creative Educations Appropriate Technology: A Phenomenological Analysis

Anca-Simona Horvath; Dimitrios Raptis

doi:10.1145/3706598.3713667

How Students in Creative Educations Appropriate Technology: A Phenomenological Analysis

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Building technological literacy is an important topic in education today while at the same time, creativity is seen as a desirable skill for professional practice and education alike as it is considered a catalyst for innovation. In this paper, we present a case study where we aim to understand how students in a creative education appropriate technology. We analyze qualitative data collected from students in a STEAM higher education undergraduate program called Art&Technology: a program where students are introduced to an assortment of technological tools including software, programming, digital fabrication and physical prototyping which they employ in creating a variety of artifacts. We analyze how students learn and interact with these technologies by analyzing the collected data through a phenomenological lens of technology appropriation. We contribute with understandings on how technology is appropriated as it transforms from an object, to a tool until it finally becomes equipment.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	CHI '25 : Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Editors	Naomi Yamashita, Vanessa Evers, Koji Yatani, Xianghua (Sharon) Ding, Bongshin Lee, Marshini Chetty, Phoebe Toups-Dugas
Number of pages	11
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Publication date	25 Apr 2025
Article number	1019
ISBN (Electronic)	9798400713941
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3706598.3713667
Publication status	Published - 25 Apr 2025
Event	2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2025 - Yokohama, Japan Duration: 26 Apr 2025 → 1 May 2025

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Conference	2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2025
Country/Territory	Japan
City	Yokohama
Period	26/04/2025 → 01/05/2025
Sponsor	ACM SIGCHI

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Keywords

Art
Creativity
Design
Phenomenology
Technology Appropriation
phenomenology
art
design
technology
appropriation
creativity

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Horvath, A.-S., & Raptis, D. (2025). How Students in Creative Educations Appropriate Technology: A Phenomenological Analysis. In N. Yamashita, V. Evers, K. Yatani, X. Ding, B. Lee, M. Chetty, & P. Toups-Dugas (Eds.), CHI '25: Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Article 1019 Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). https://doi.org/10.1145/3706598.3713667

Horvath, Anca-Simona ; Raptis, Dimitrios. / How Students in Creative Educations Appropriate Technology : A Phenomenological Analysis. CHI '25: Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. editor / Naomi Yamashita ; Vanessa Evers ; Koji Yatani ; Xianghua (Sharon) Ding ; Bongshin Lee ; Marshini Chetty ; Phoebe Toups-Dugas. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2025.

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Horvath, A-S & Raptis, D 2025, How Students in Creative Educations Appropriate Technology: A Phenomenological Analysis. in N Yamashita, V Evers, K Yatani, X Ding, B Lee, M Chetty & P Toups-Dugas (eds), CHI '25: Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems., 1019, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2025, Yokohama, Japan, 26/04/2025. https://doi.org/10.1145/3706598.3713667

How Students in Creative Educations Appropriate Technology: A Phenomenological Analysis. / Horvath, Anca-Simona ; Raptis, Dimitrios.
CHI '25: Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. ed. / Naomi Yamashita; Vanessa Evers; Koji Yatani; Xianghua (Sharon) Ding; Bongshin Lee; Marshini Chetty; Phoebe Toups-Dugas. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2025. 1019.

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