ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the ethnographic research project, 'Homespace or Workspace', and analyzes the socio-material relations in the use and distribution of assistive technology in Denmark. In Denmark, disabled and elderly people are able to receive domiciliary care and assistive technologies from the municipality. The chapter examines the private home as a space where continual optimization of professional health care practice involving many assistive technologies often collides with the disables expectations concerning the kind of non-human actors they prefer in their homes. The theoretical framework and the terminology in the analysis are drawn from Science and Technology Studies (STS), where Actor Network Theory (ANT) is the key inspiration. A domestication analysis examines the cultural integration or disintegration of artefacts, and sees it as a process in which technology, actors and space are affected. The scripting of the assistive technology is most obvious when artefact designs configure the user in specific and practical ways.
