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Human-Computer Interaction

By: Thomas Binder (Editor), Jonas Lowgren (Editor), Lone Malmborg (Editor)

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Hardcover | 27 November 2008

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The intent of this chapter is to outline a distinctive way of thinking about issues of technology and society that has characterized many Nordic approaches to the topic. One of the characteristics of this approach has been the recognition of the worth of human labour. Technology is not seen as an alien force, but something which is itself a product of human labour, and it can be designed and utilized in ways which augment human skills and expertise, rather than degrading them. What is particularly striking, at least to this author, in this approach is that we are presented not simply with a vision of how things could be better in our society, but with concrete exemplars of how we can build such a better world. It is in recognition of this fact that I have chosen the title of this chapter, as it emphasizes that, while the tradition of Utopian literature is the - lineation of a supposedly idea world which exists no-place (u-topos, in Greek), these visions can be an inspiration for quite practical activities on the ground, as steps towards their realization. As Wilde notes (in the quote above) this is a never-ending quest, as with each achievement, we recognize that there are further bridges to cross and places to be visited.

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Non-Fiction Computing & I.T.Computer Science Systems Analysis & Design Operating Systems Human-Computer Interaction User Interface Design & Usability Information Technology General Issue Ethical & Social Aspects of IT Business Applications Databases Data Capture & Analysis

(Re-)Programming Interaction Design	p. 1
From Utopia 1981 to Utopia 2008	p. 13
HCI and Design - Uncomfortable Bedfellows?	p. 43
Constructing Utopia(s) in Situ - Daring to Be Different	p. 61
Tradition and Transcendence	p. 79
Designing from Somewhere - A Located, Relational and Transformational View of Design	p. 99
On Participation and Service Innovation	p. 121
The Phenomenological Stance of the Designer	p. 145
Designing for Homo Ludens, Still	p. 163
Gaming Literacy - Game Design as a Model for Literacy in the 21ST Century	p. 179
Disruptions	p. 191
On a Scale Between Art and Design - On the Aesthetics of Function from the Bauhaus Until Today	p. 219
Appropriating Digital Environments - (Re-)Constructing the Physical Through the Digital	p. 235
Designed Animism	p. 251
In Search of a Critical Stance	p. 275
A Science of the Possible - A New Practice in the Spirit of Bauhaus	p. 291
Work, Design, Computers, Artifacts	p. 309
The Everyday Poetics of a Digital Bauhaus	p. 333
Image Credits	p. 363
Index	p. 367
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