Building Socially Embedded Technologies: Implications About Design

Cabitza, Federico; Simone, Carla

doi:10.1007/978-1-4471-6720-4_11

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“…Bratteteig and Wagner, 2014) that constitute a solid background against which viable innovative solutions can be sought, as this paper attempted to do. In all approaches, the long-established role of the designers is challenged as are their traditional methods and tools (as deeply discussed in Cabitza and Simone, 2015). The definition of the appropriate boundary between KAs and NAs requires revisiting how IT-systems and knowledge-based systems are conceived and designed, possibly abandoning some given-for-granted goals and approaches and leveraging and adapting some of their tools for the new purposes (as hinted to in this paper).…”

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Knowledge artifacts: the implications of incommensurable dimensions for their design

Simone

2018

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to overcome the confusion generated by a loose definition of the term knowledge artifact (KA) and its impacts on the design of technologies supporting their use. Design/methodology/approach The paper looks at the conceptual foundations underpinning the concept of KA that are related to the way in which knowledge is conceived, and revisits the outcomes of empirical investigations to shed light on different aspects of the use of KA in various settings. Findings The paper identifies a class of KAs and its role in relation to other classes of KAs, as it emerges from the empirical investigations. Research limitations/implications The focus is on documental artifacts that are, however, widely used in different domains and organizations. New empirical work is needed to consider other kinds of artifacts and their role in knowledge-intense activities. Practical implications The paper aims to drive the attention of the designer on phenomena that hinder the acceptance, appropriation and effectiveness of the technologies they design to support a crucial aspect of collaboration. Originality/value The paper is original in the following ways: first, documenting the interplay between a kind of KA that is poorly considered in the literature with other classes of KAs; second, highlighting a set of principles that should guide the construction of computational KAs of a different nature.

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Knowledge artifacts: the implications of incommensurable dimensions for their design

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2018

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“…This is the conceptual basis of the methodological breakthrough titled the performative turn. The term turn signifies the trend to reverse the ontological premises that reality corresponds to particular objects, entities, and configurations that exist in and of themselves exhibiting certain essential qualities towards a new central hypothesis that objects are textures of partially coherent and partially coordinated performances existing through multiple situated practices [13].…”

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“…This trend entered in cultural studies, social sciences and humanities in late 20th century and has greatly influenced disciplines like ethnology, anthropology, and sociology, bringing an alternative way to look at how members of groups and society at large interact, work, and share knowledge within the context of groups and societies [13]. The major premise is that people create and recreate meaning and knowledge in social settings through performance.…”

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“…The performative assumption is that reality becomes in the process of knowing and it implies that the object that is known and the subject that does the knowing are co-produced in and by the same performance. This has paramount significance for the epistemological problem (what is true) and the ontological question (what is): They are both resolved (or remain unresolved) in the same moment [13]. This is a quite important and thought-provoking claim that proved very fruitful in renovating many disciplines and creating a movement towards the performative understanding of various phenomena on the one hand and the adoption of research tools that explicitly focus on the performative aspects of human behavior in order to reveal the performative aspects of life and describe them with rigor on the other hand [16].…”

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“…[…] researchers adopting a performative turn put first in their research agenda the study of the contingencies of time, space, technology, materiality, or discourse, […] all things that the more classical "representational" model of thinking […] i.e., the one assuming a detached observer that studies real objects and their essential properties in an objective world (or that designs and puts new objects into the world), escapes either consciously or unaware with profound consequences also on the conception of the role of technology in society and of its "designers". [13] (p. 224) By attributing to our daily lives a performative quality, the close relationship between drama as an art and drama as a social process is evident. The next section explores this relationship.…”

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An important aspect of ICT, identified 25 years ago within the user interface design community, is dramatic interaction: The deep engagement promoted by digital technologies that can be better explored by adopting a conceptual framework traditionally used to describe and study theater. This framework offers a wider perspective that demonstrates a deep connection between the qualities of our hyper-connected era and drama as an art of representing action. These concepts transcend the prevailing technical mentality when addressing ICT. They imply that we all participate as “interactors” on the “onlife stage” where other agents (either humans or computer-controlled) are also present. By promoting deep experiences, the hyper-connected environment in which we live in, changes our metaphysics and self-conception. A dramatic framework can explain the power of ICT and help us work towards the development of an equilibrium both personally and collectively: When used to enrich our experiences and extend our agencies, ICT can be considered as an enhancement of reality. When, on the other side, they are used to promote a false reality experience, they should be rectified. Important ethical and anthropological concerns are framed on the same philosophical ground as ancient drama. Ancient drama was a major pillar of Ancient Democracy and served the need to educate citizens with empathy in order to participate as responsible actors in decision making processes.

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