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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Acceptable discomfort for sustainability
Team research on sustainability should start with doing something out of your comfort zones.
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Saline agriculture Texel: an example transition project 2006-2010
Dutch article on experimental research of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam on Saline argiculture on…
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YUTPA analysis Smart Grid
Currently smart grid technology is developed worldwide. Boulder Colorado, for example, the first…
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YUTPA analysis Facebook
In this example a YUTPA analysis is carried out to understand how Facebook’s presence design…
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Participatory Distributed Systems design: Local coordination for global management
Fundamental to participatory distributed systems design is the notion of local coordination. Every…
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Political economy: Poly-centricity
For over 40 years Elinor Ostrom studied how rural communities in different places in the world…
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Science and Technology Studies: Actor Network Theory
Science and Technology Studies (STS) studies how science and technological innovation affect…
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Business studies: Presencing and the U-Turn
Senge introduced the concept of ‘presencing’ as a means to guide organizations to go through…
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Design for experience
Design for presence needs to include the complex notion of design for experience. We make choices…
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Main issues of controversy on the notion of Presence as a value for design
A first issue of controversy is that presence is a fuzzy concept. Most measurements in the ‘being
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Co-presence, social presence and witnessed presence
Individual performance of presence is affected and inspired by other people’s presence. In 1963…
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The strive for survival and well-being
Having identified that the sense of ‘being-here’ and the sense of ‘being-there’ are merging, the…
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Merging realities
In communication trajectories we incorporate on- and offline interaction into one experience over…
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Being Here
In the 1990s the ‘being-here’ perspective on presence design is initially overshadowed by the many…
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Being there
To create digital technologies for mediating presence, psychologists and computer scientists have…
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Open issues and further work
Little is known about the embodiment of virtual and mediated experiences. Looking at data of users…