Engagement
A person can be fully committed to understand a specific text, to play a game, to build a place up to a point that the self more or less vanishes in this passionate attention. Engagement is more and more connected to notions of authenticity. One can be as authentic on a piece of land as on Facebook. Engagement is a qualifying factor for authentity in on- and offline worlds.
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Informing the form
With the new technologies there are new possibilities for service design and these can bring some…
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Cycle of quality & wits to survive
In traditional artisan’s context, where the user and the maker shared time and place, there was an…
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Reference to profound experience
The way references and values will be understood in a technology context is highly dependent on how…
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Centredness as social structure
Learning the skills to work with the material is a process of inducing in traditional artisan…
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Interacting with materials
Jogi Panghaal argues that while interacting with material the human being changes the material…
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Appropriate levels of empathy with user
Healthy organizations ensure that user-centred thinking exists within the community of engineers
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Assuming systems to be stable and regular
When handling technology or other artefacts, users need to be aware that their actions will have a…
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Infrastructure and human beings adapt
The technological systems that humans have developed in the last 80,000 years have been possible by…
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No possibility of a shared meaning
Aditya Dev Sood argues that a user is someone who is aware of the instrumentality of his or her…
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Networks are not viable
The complexity paradigm of self-organization, complexity, co-evolution, adaptation, all words that…
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Systems of knowledge
Geetha Narayanan argues it is time to question our systems of knowledge. Professional life gets…
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Feminine transformation
Narayanan expects that a huge feminine gender based transformation will take place in India over…
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Humanness at the centre
When suggesting that technology actually functions as a social engineering tool, Narayanan…
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Failing is crucial
The learning environment of Srishti is an open environment; always in a state of flux, there is a…
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Social use of technology
Geetha Narayanan has lived in Bangalore since the 50’s and has witnessed how public funding in the…
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Being witness is context defined
When addressing witnessed presence in crisis situations, Parthasarathi elaborated on the media…