Environmental Interaction
When human beings work with material, shape material, the material shapes them at the same time. The potter centres the clay and the clay centrs the potter. While operating technology, technology affcets human beings as well. The mobile phone for example changed human decision behaviour. Interacting with material, including interaction with technology, shapes human beings and influences their spatiotemporal trajectories up to the point that others recognize them. In communities of practice the recognizing of spatiotemporal trajectries is a requirement for developing shared concepts out of which language emerges.
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ACT UP
ACT UP, the AIDS Coalition To Unleash Power, which started in the USA in 1987, had grown to be a…
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Skills impact identity
Before the GHP, Paradiso had an Ethernet installed in the building, at the time this was already…
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Words that act
When I was preparing for the GHP I was working closely with people who knew how to operate…
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Technological literacy
The people who were reporting in the edit group were all social scientists and/or journalists. The…
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No unity of time, place and action
In the variety of cultures humankind has developed many strategies for assessing the truth. Many…
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Interfacing complexity
An interesting example, which underscores the need for social interfaces to convey trust in…
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It is a product and a process
The fact that I called this section trustworthiness instead of just trust implies an interaction.
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Tacit trust IRL
At the GHP I was actually surprised so many times by the trust people placed in each other, which…
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Intercultural links, flaws and sensitivity online
One thing that did not take place at the GHP was a videoconference between Paradiso and Siggraph in…
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Nodes
In Wellington New Zealand a group of about 30 people gathered for all three days. They had…
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Infrastructure
In the months following these announcements many connections were made, people approached us and we…
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To evaluate, learn and distribute by sensing
The way a networked event, which happens in the public domain, is evaluated is very different to…
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Designing time
When creating a networked event, one is also designing time. Dramatic events change our sense of…
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Lots of infrastructure to offer moments of significance
To create good infrastructures is an art in itself. It requires a lot of technical insights about…
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Formal and informal encounters
It is like organizing a party. The infrastructure has to be there, one can put a lot of care into…
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Formulated perception in historical context
For such political spaces to work they have to give people an experience, as was my conviction in…