Attuning to care technologies

This paper is a call to study how we attune differently to the care technologies (tech) we live with as a means to design them better. Care tech fiddles with our most intimate relations and vulnerabilities. People have different experiences, dreams, desires, and action potentials, and if they cannot attune to a care tech, the care tech will not work as intended or even cause pathogenic vulnerability. The first part of the paper develops this argument, while the second part analyses three design cases and sketches an approach of deeply situated design as a potential answer to the call.