Forging and maintaining the social over the distance
Speaker: Marc Hassenzahl – Siegen, GermanyTopic(s): Human Computer Interaction
Abstract
Feelings of closeness, togetherness, relatedness, or intimacy are major ingredients of people’s wellbeing. While those feelings certainly require physical proximity now and then, technology had been and continues to be instrumental in forging and maintaining them over the distance. From phone calls and Zoom to social media and virtual worlds – interactive technology is an inseparable part of a multitude of everyday interpersonal practices. What seems often underestimated, though, is the subtlety in which those technologies shape the relationships they mediate. In fact, phones and videoconferencing systems are far from neutral devices for people to exchange information as they please. Especially through functionality and interaction design, devices encourage particular interpersonal practices and discourage others.
In this talk, I will revisit more than ten years of own experience with building subtle and maybe not so subtle devices to maintain and forge the social over the distance. I will critically review our design rationales, as well as tell stories about successes and failures to establish and reshape interpersonal practices through designed interaction.
About this Lecture
Number of Slides: 30Duration: 30 - 60 minutes
Languages Available: English, German
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