Use/Role
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Ten characteristics of play
1. Attractive: looking good 2. Intuitive: ease of use 3. Interactive: can you perform action? 4.
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Hitch-hiking is an act of mutual trust
In april 2010, I returned home from a study trip to Zürich, Switzerland. Due to the…
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Modern democracy needs public participation
Trust is one of the principal requirements for a stable society (Markova and Gillespie 2008). In…
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Negotiation and agency in an online world
People manage their identity online, and this is often time consuming. Professional life depends…
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From transactions to interaction
In theatre, the distinction is made between actions and activities. Actions affect identity and…
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Realities of place
Place includes social, economical, ecological, social, cultural and historical realities: they are…
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Synchronization of rhythms is essential for witnessing to take place
In the experience of people, different realities merge biological, social and technological. The…
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Rhythm in online and mediated environments
Qualities in online environments are different from the qualities in face-to-face environments. For…
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Size of networks
Having witnessed the IT development in Bangalore since the 1950s, Geetha Narayanan argues that it…
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Communication and adaptation
Many organizations and business train their employees in global communications skills in which the…
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Requirements to establish trust in a technology environment
To establish trust in a technology environment is complex.
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Culture and witnessed presence
When transposing a concept like Witnessed Presence from one culture to another tuning is required.
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Influence and participation
Surveillance and identification technologies deeply influence today’s society. Large quantities of…
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Systems are becoming more powerful
From a Computer Science perspective, systems are not participants, nor actors in communities of…
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Witnessing of systems: systems do not witness people, people witness systems
For most people, there is a great discrepancy between perceiving and understanding computers. Many…
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Witnessed presence and trust
Recognizing each other’s spatiotemporal trajectories seems to be a requirement for the emergence of…