Questioning gender is about taking an active, critical role in the technological design of our daily behaviour. It is a deconstruction of the oppositions that exist in the discourses of Ambient Intelligence designers, the ICT industry and computer scientists. What underlies the assumption that Ambient Intelligence will, by disappearing into our environment, bring humans both an easy and entertaining life? The gender perspective can uncover power relations within the promotion and realisation of Ambient Intelligence that satisfy an obvious wish for a technological heaven. The deconstruction of the promise of progress and a better life reveals what is overvalued, what is undervalued and what is ignored. This paper is a deconstruction of the view, currently prevalent in the discourses of Ambient Intelligence; a view of humans and the way they live. A view that will influence the way women and men will be allowed to construct their lives.
Abstract:Object Oriented approaches (00) may be placed within functionalism. It is argued that we should not use 00 for analysing human worlds. OBJECTs are neither presentations of humans nor equal to humans as the literature often suggests.But everything which is assumed without question, which is taken for granted in our intercourse with one another and nature is what, at the given time, is called knowledge. Thinking on the contrary starts ... from doubt or uncertainty. It marks an inquiring, hunting, searching attitude, instead of one of mastery and possession [8].
THE ONTOLOGICAL STRUCTURE OF THE OBJECT WORLDThe OBJECT is the basic unit in a description of an OBJECT world, which functions as a script for an 'interaction play' of cooperating OBJECTs. A presentation of an OBJECT world is like performance in theatre. If the OBJECTs are models of real entities then the performance is only a modelled presentation of a part of real world interaction. OBJECTs are actors in a play, with predetermined dynamic and static properties described in classes of which they are instances. In an OBJECT class the dynamic and static properties are bundled together, interdependent and encapsulated. Every OBJECT is an input-output-system with invisible internal behaviour and information. During the performance only the OBJECT surface is visible. The environment of an OBJECT consists of all
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