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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Engineering space into place
To understand why certain programmes are successful I turn to the distinction that is made between…
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Influenced by the media-landscape
Developments in media and modern art, including the performing arts, deeply influence how the…
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A new form of public sphere
The GHP and the 0+Ball were two of the first events in a range of gatherings, and an inspiration to…
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I and Thou, You and not-You
In this section I want to argue that the way we are witnessed and witness other people, deeply…
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Not-You is information (biased or not)
I can be with my lover, leave the house and pass a 'bump' and not even notice this person. Where…
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Time, place, social group and culture determine schemata
In Science and Technology Studies the complexity of such arrangements in which nature, culture and…
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To settle for certain behaviour
The concept of media schemata is crucial for research into the domain of designing presence in…
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Media Schemata
'I could not go to sleep because the lady in the television set asked me to stay and watch a bit…
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To be raised by a computer
The last story I want to share in this section poses the question of whether there is a distinction…
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AIBO, the robotdog
The first story is about a robot dog that was made In Sony's Research Lab in Paris in 2001. Because…
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Love on the Internet
A second story I want to share is about two people communicating with each other via Internet.
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We have all become 'cyborgs'
Another element in thinking about natural presence in modern life is elaborated upon by Donna…
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Enacting 'being alive'
Haraway's insights imply consequences for the sense of presence on an even deeper level. In the…
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Blurring between real and unreal
For survival, the blurring between real and unreal situations is problematic at first sight. When…
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A stranger on my path
When I am confronted by a stranger on my path, I have to know whether he is really there and…
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The layers of presence
In 2004 an amazing article was written, 'The Layers of Presence: A Bio-cultural Approach to…