Designing for conviviality

Voinea, Cristina

doi:10.1016/j.techsoc.2017.07.002

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“…Meaningful interaction takes work from both sides (Voinea 2018). As conversational interfaces and social robots become more ubiquitous, the rigidity of default dialog flows and the lack of reciprocal adaptation comes to the surface more often.…”

Section: Human-computer Interactionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Reimagining language

Rasenberg,

Amha,

Coler

et al. 2023

AVT

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What is language and who or what can be said to have it? In this essay we consider this question in the context of interactions with non-humans, specifically: animals and computers. While perhaps an odd pairing at first glance, here we argue that these domains can offer contrasting perspectives through which we can explore and reimagine language. The interactions between humans and animals, as well as between humans and computers, reveal both the essence and the boundaries of language: from examining the role of sequence and contingency in human-animal interaction, to unravelling the challenges of natural interactions with “smart” speakers and language models. By bringing together disparate fields around foundational questions, we push the boundaries of linguistic inquiry and uncover new insights into what language is and how it functions in diverse non-human-exclusive contexts.

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Section: Human-computer Interactionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Reimagining language

Rasenberg,

Amha,

Coler

et al. 2023

AVT

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“…Illich's followers provide criteria and typologies for convivial technology (Kostakis et al , 2016; Prieur, 2011; Gordon, 2009), generally focused on avoiding ecological harms, encouraging user autonomy and egalitarian and participatory societies, and providing “meaningful” work. Voinea (2018, p. 76) provides criteria of flexibility, transparency, simplicity/usability, sharedness, creativity and sociality. This raises questions about whether advanced, anthropomorphised technologies (e.g.…”

Section: Humanist-pessimistmentioning

confidence: 99%

Robotopias: mapping utopian perspectives on new industrial technology

Firth

Robinson

2020

IJSSP

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PurposeThis paper maps utopian theories of technological change. The focus is on debates surrounding emerging industrial technologies which contribute to making the relationship between humans and machines more symbiotic and entangled, such as robotics, automation and artificial intelligence. The aim is to provide a map to navigate complex debates on the potential for technology to be used for emancipatory purposes and to plot the grounds for tactical engagements.Design/methodology/approachThe paper proposes a two-way axis to map theories into to a six-category typology. Axis one contains the parameters humanist–assemblage. Humanists draw on the idea of a human essence of creative labour-power, and treat machines as alienated and exploitative form of this essence. Assemblage theorists draw on posthumanism and poststructuralism, maintaining that humans always exist within assemblages which also contain non-human forces. Axis two contains the parameters utopian/optimist; tactical/processual; and dystopian/pessimist, depending on the construed potential for using new technologies for empowering ends.FindingsThe growing social role of robots portends unknown, and maybe radical, changes, but there is no single human perspective from which this shift is conceived. Approaches cluster in six distinct sets, each with different paradigmatic assumptions.Practical implicationsMapping the categories is useful pedagogically, and makes other political interventions possible, for example interventions between groups and social movements whose practice-based ontologies differ vastly.Originality/valueBringing different approaches into contact and mapping differences in ways which make them more comparable, can help to identify the points of disagreement and the empirical or axiomatic grounds for these. It might facilitate the future identification of criteria to choose among the approaches.

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Hic sunt leones. User orientation as a design principle for emerging institutions on social media platforms

Marin,

Vică

2024

AI & Soc

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The phenomenon of missed interactions between online users is a specific issue occurring when users of different language games interact on social media platforms. We use the lens of institutional theory to analyze this phenomenon and argue that current online institutions will necessarily fail to regulate user interactions in a way that creates common meanings because online institutions are not set up to deal with the multiplicity of language games and forms of life co-existing in the online social space. We argue for the need to enable and foster grassroots online institutions that can stabilize the norms of interaction by redesigning algorithms and user interfaces. Such online grassroots institutions would facilitate user orientation at three distinct levels: informational, normative, and semantic-pragmatic. We propose user orientation as a principle that would facilitate the formation of institutions aiming to regulate information exchanges between users inhabiting various forms of life. This principle of user orientation should guide design decisions, while designer teams would need to become aware of the institutional power unleashed when they set up interfaces and algorithms for user-generated content.

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Designing for conviviality

Cited by 10 publications

References 12 publications

Reimagining language

Reimagining language

Robotopias: mapping utopian perspectives on new industrial technology

Hic sunt leones. User orientation as a design principle for emerging institutions on social media platforms

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