Body sense
Human beings experience life in and through their bodies; With the body we are born and some time later die. The body, often before our consciousness realizes, registers how we are, where we are and what is beneficial or detrimental to us. In mediated presence, which is also dependent on the body, such physical cues are not easily available. Nevertheless, technology invaded human perception of the world around and even of the self. Because the body is the instrument that records it all, because it manifests our mortality and because it's sense for what is good or bad for us is so refined, physical presence is needed when issues of ethical nature are at stake.
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ACADEMIA
Adaptation and personal experience
Human beings adapt to new power and presence configurations, but also in these new configurations…
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ACADEMIA
Requirements to establish trust in a technology environment
To establish trust in a technology environment is complex.
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ACADEMIA
Influence and participation
Surveillance and identification technologies deeply influence today’s society. Large quantities of…
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ACADEMIA
Aesthetics and visual logic
It is a survival tactic of humans to try to humanize the system and to try to give it more human…
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ACADEMIA
Systems are becoming more powerful
From a Computer Science perspective, systems are not participants, nor actors in communities of…
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ACADEMIA
Witnessing in court
In European Systems of Law, technological systems are not accepted as witnesses in their own right.
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ACADEMIA
Witnessed presence and trust
Recognizing each other’s spatiotemporal trajectories seems to be a requirement for the emergence of…
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ACADEMIA
Human agency and system design
Seeking well-being and survival, human beings in technological environments are ‘thinking actors’:…
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Article
Quality of an object
What is the quality of an object? Let us be more specific: how do we define the quality of an…
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ART
Landscapes
Where am I? It looks like Siberia, everything is white, no it must be the Carribean, colors ranging…
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ART
Going High
A bus is something weird. Its intimate because you travel, often for a long time with strangers
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ACADEMIA
The Internet and mediated presence
The transcendence of time and place has been a human drive for centuries. Inventions of script
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ACADEMIA
Exploring Witnessed Presence (methodology)
The qualitative exploratory study ‘Witnessed Presence and Systems Engineering’ presented in this…
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ACADEMIA
New social structures are emerging
Individuals are discovering beneficial ways to use technology, incorporating technology into their…
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ART
The Slow Dance
What impact does the designer-commissioner relationship has on the outcome of the design? What are…