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New products and technologies increasingly blur the boundaries between humans and things. This has major implications for what interaction design can be. In a world of wearable technologies, social robots, smart environments and implanted technologies, the relations we have with technologies can hardly be characterized as \"use\" anymore. Rather, concepts like \"immersion\", \"fusion\", \"implication\", or even \"enhancement\" apply. In order to analyze the character of these new interactions, we need to expand existing analyses of human-technology relations, most notably the \"postphenomenological\" framework, which has traditionally focused on relations of use. This expansion of our understanding of human-technology interactions has major implications for our understanding of what craftsmanship can be. First of all, it shows that interaction design needs to take into account many new contact points between human beings and technological artifacts, which requires new material accounts of the human and new social accounts of the technological. We need a \"hybrid ontology\" in which the boundaries between humans and things are continuously redefined. Second, it shows that crafting technologies also implies crafting the self. New technologies imply new ways of being human, because they mediate human behavior and experiences in novel ways. In order to deal with these mediating powers, we need \"technologies of the self\", to use an expression of Michel Foucault. Such \"technologies\" do not only consist in ascetic practices of using technologies, but also in \"ascetic design\": material arrangements of the ways in which human beings are consciously and responsibly affected, influenced and enacted by technologies. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2014 | 10.1145/2598510.2605003 | Conference on Designing Interactive Systems |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
mediation theory,ethics of design,human-technology relations,technologies of the self,postphenomenology,conference proceedings | Ontology,Social robot,Environmental philosophy,Smart environment,Craft,Interaction design,Human–computer interaction,Emerging technologies,Management,Self,Engineering,Epistemology | Conference |
Citations | PageRank | References |
2 | 0.37 | 0 |
Authors | ||
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Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
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| Peter-Paul Verbeek | 1 | 18 | 2.83 |