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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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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Artistic research
Presence research uses many methodologies from the medical and natural sciences as well as…
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Meta-design for choices and trade-offs
Presence research is a science of trade-offs (IJsselsteijn 2004). We, as individuals make these…
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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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Conclusions
This chapter focuses on the design of presence in merging realities as approached in the social and…
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Introduction
Presence is a word that appears in many social, political, religious and economic contexts and…
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Evaluation of the ATHENS Biomimicry design course
The last two days of the course were dedicated to the final presentation. Each repetition, the…