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... Fragmented user experience and unnecessary complexity irritating perception have to be probibited. Design should exploit the context to be as concise as possible [2]. Therefore an integrated design approach is proposed as in [16]. ...
In this paper, I emphazise on the users' experience when faced to disappearing user interfaces. I will start out, confronting potential conveniences of ubiquitous computing and related visions to possible shortcomings in their implementation due to design flaws. Three key issues for user-centered design of disappearing interfaces in ubiquitous computing are proposed, namely perceived coherence of computerized devices, awareness of the scope of effects resulting from one's interactions and support for orientation. I will illustrate these issues by use of examples, arguing that intuitively regognizing the potentials of a designed network of computational artifacts will be crucial for the users' a cceptance of UbiCom environments. Therefore, I will promote the careful design of human-perceived context, which uses familiar symbols and affordances to make user interfaces and options visible. I briefly refer to components of the 'product language' before presenting selected features of roomware environments and pointing to future research.
In the years since its appearance, Lave and Wenger’s (1990, 1991) notion of ‘community of practice’ (hereafter, CoP) has developed a remarkably wide following. Its appeal owes a good deal to the seductive character of community, aptly described as a ‘warmly persuasive word’ (Williams, 1976, p. 66). As Østerlund and Carlile (2005) note, most citations of Lave and Wenger have focused on community and ignored practice. Yet it is practice that makes the CoP, the social locus in which a practice is sustained and reproduced overtime, a distinct type of community1 practice is thus critical to CoP analysis. We should not, however, lose sight of the community. The CoP is inherently and irreducibly a social endeavour.
In this essay the author presents an expanded genre view to examine global diffusion of interactive technologies in this increasingly globalized world. Through an analysis of its generic features, the author explores how Sina Weibo, a technology considered as a copycat of a Western technology, arises as a local uptake in a discourse of global technology diffusion. In studying its struggle and resistance, the author shows how a local uptake is shaped by the implicit value and ideology of the technology it imitates from. Meanwhile, this diffusion process is also a process of enacting the emergent structure of local technology use. The dynamic and dialogical structuring process behind genre formation worldwide manifests the complex interactions of technology and culture in our contemporary conditions.
This article examines the evolution of the ‘open mobile web’ during its early phase of development, at the time when third-generation (3G) mobile networks were first launched. The ‘site’ chosen for the study was T-Mobile, a global mobile operator that was developing Europe’s first open mobile web service. Through interviews with its employees, the analysis shows how a change took place in the self-reflections of the telecoms industry with regard to the ways it was using various historical narratives. That rhetorical adjustment tied the mobile industry to the World Wide Web and its industry but did so in complex and contested ways. The analysis of this period of development is shown to have constituted the formation phase of the contemporary complexities of the ubiquitous web and its industries.
In this essay the author presents an expanded genre view to examine global diffusion of interactive technologies in this increasingly globalized world. Through an analysis of its generic features, the author explores how Sina Weibo, a technology considered as a copycat of a Western technology, arises as a local uptake in a discourse of global technology diffusion. In studying its struggle and resistance, the author shows how a local uptake is shaped by the implicit value and ideology of the technology it imitates from. Meanwhile, this diffusion process is also a process of enacting the emergent structure of local technology use. The dynamic and dialogical structuring process behind genre formation worldwide manifests the complex interactions of technology and culture in our contemporary conditions.
The demand and opportunity for cross-cultural technology design is rapidly rising due to globalization. However, all too often resulting technologies are technically usable, yet cannot be immediately put to meaningful use by users in their local, concrete contexts. Support for concrete user activities are frequently missing in design, as support for decontextualized actions is typically the focus of design. Sun examines this disconnect between action and meaning in cross-cultural technology design and presents an innovative framework Culturally Localized User Experience (CLUE) to tackle this problem. Incorporating key concepts and methods from activity theory, cultural studies, and rhetorical genre theory, the CLUE approach integrates action and meaning through a dialogical, cyclical design process to design technology that engages local users within culturally meaningful social practices.
Illustrated with five in-depth case studies of mobile text messaging use by college students and young professionals in American and Chinese contexts spanning years, Sun demonstrates that a technology created for culturally localized user experience mediates both instrumental practices and social meanings. She calls for a change in cross-cultural design practices from simply applying cultural conventions in design to engaging with social affordances based on a rich understanding of meaningful contextualized activity. Meanwhile, the vivid user stories at sites of technology-in-use show the power of “user localization” in connecting design and use, which Sun believes essential for the success of an emerging technology like mobile messaging in an era of culturally localized, participatory design.
This book will be of interest to researchers, students, practitioners, and anyone, who wants to create culture-sensitive technology for local users in this increasingly globalized world requiring advanced techniques for culturally localized participatory design.
This article proposes an interdisciplinary approach to studying the dynamics that condition the evolution of various path dependencies of media systems, comprised of specific industry institutions, their formations, the markets they create, usage practices, audience constellations and textual formations. The interdisciplinary approach involves the integration of the semiotics of culture approach (Lotman) with the evolutionary economics approach. As the former studies the dynamics of inter-semiotic translations to interpret the evolution of media's new textual forms and the latter focuses on phenomena such as resource constraints or industry exchange relationships, then in aggregation, they may help to interpret the manifold dynamics that might contribute both to the formation of diachronic continuities as well as discontinuities in a culture. The empirical case that the article focuses on is the early evolution of the mobile web, its path dependence on the preceding media, especially desktop web, and its potential divergence from this "parent platform", its gradual emancipation as an autonomous media domain.
This article presents our use of the literary notion of "discursive genre" as a component of methods for educational software development. We observed designers' and engineers' activity in a Software House, followed the many phases a piece of software undergoes from development to usage in wider contexts, and analyzed users' activities with the software. We concluded that our knowledge of teachers' and pupils' dialogical practices is critical to educational software development, and that we would greatly profit from modeling those practices to software. Resumo. Este artigo discute o uso da noção de "gênero discursivo" como parte de um método para o desenvolvimento de software educativo. Registramos e analisamos a atividade de engenheiros e designers em uma fábrica de software, seguimos os artefatos ali construídos e analisamos a atividade de seus usuários. Concluímos que é crucial conhecermos as práticas dialógicas em que se engajam alunos e professores, e que seria muito proveitoso modelar tais práticas nos softwares que desenvolvemos.
This paper is about the relationship between collective memory and innovation processes. It asks the following questions. What is the role of collective memory in the evolutionary dynamics of technology-intense media forms? How does it create a balance between order and disruption and lead to both continuities and discontinuities in media and their productive cultures? How, on the one hand, does it preserve order in production systems that are engaged with the new media development? On the other hand, how does it evoke disruptions that destroy the existing order within systems and establish new points of equilibrium? In order to broaden our understanding of these dynamics of the interdependencies between collective memory and media innovation, this paper suggests the need for further cooperation between these respective domains of academic research.
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