It is in fact not easy to believe how rapidly technology has found such a big influence in our lives during a few decades. At the same time, it is finding its way to fit into our lives in new ways other than productivity, efficiency and entertainment. Technology design practice is now moving towards designing experiences rather than items. In this scenario, technology is not anymore a means for facilitating our activities but is actually conditioning our behavior. In many situations, there is indeed the danger of dissociation with the real world. It is very common that people have lost their ability to communicate and be social with the ones that they are not familiar with. Times that people find themselves in awkward social moments that they want to escape to the world of their devices are countless. I think what is important here is to question the authority of computation to decide how you behave in real life. This study might be interrelated with interactivity and responsiveness in design that is attempting to use computers to open up new spaces to help people improvise new kinds of activity. It is in fact defining its goal in designing spaces for human communications. In this sense, it seems appropriate to research the act of communication in a new way. As discussed by “Krueger”, the concept of people getting together in the artificial reality is critical. One might think of What is suggested now that we are interactive in a way that people never could be? Is interactive technology offering improvement in communication or it is simply moving human to rely more and more on technology itself? The answer can find its root in kinds of suppositions that are underlying the existing pattern in the design of technology and finding alternative ways that embody different assumptions as discussed by computer scientists such as “Pheobe Sengers”. When it comes to interactive design, I think it is important to keep in mind the different influences proposed by designing the communication between people and things rather than communication between people with each other which could be both diminished and enhanced by means of interactivity.
10.02.2014