Interesting article about phatic gadgets in Gizmodo today by a designer at Frog Design. These are gadgets that facilitate passing and non-demanding interactions, through wireless or other networks. We use these things sometimes for their
I’ve got to admit that in all these years I’ve never read any Harold Garfinkel, and that *that* was an oversight! If you are in design, and have not read Garfinkel, don’t walk, run, to
I met these guys at Banff years ago at an Interactive Screen (back in Sara Diamond daze)… Artists are in the fortunate position to plumb the relations between technology and society, technology and culture, concept,
Social experiences and interactions scale uniquely. Which is just one reason that social interaction design needs to pay close attention to the intervention of technology in communication and interaction. A new feature at an online
“Do not fold, spindle, or mutilate.” Remember that one? It was repurpased from computer manuals by students during late 60s protests (in Canada, I think) and became a tagline for the student protest movement. We
I may be scratching where it doesn’t itch, but I’m feeling itchy and I’ve been scratching so I’m going to go with it. After months of working on a paper about what I call “social