Narrative Scenarios for a Humanistic Approach to Technology Critique - A Case Study

Abstract

Are narrative scenarios effective artifacts to trigger an interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary discourse that results in actionable design criteria for the future co-existence of humans and intelligent machines? To answer this question, a multilinear narrative illustrating the impact of emerging technologies on the future of vocational education was developed, and a small field study was conducted to evaluate its effects. The findings support the hypothesis that narratives can trigger a reflection about new and disruptive technologies and can thereby help to propagate a humanistic view of our ever more technology-driven world.

Dynamic Nonlinear System Based on Complex System Theory in the Development of Vocational Education

“…As long as the nonlinear system meets the requirements of continuity and smoothness near a certain point, it can be regarded as a weakly nonlinear system by expanding the evolution equation and omitting the nonlinear term. We use linear system theory to analyze the model to obtain an approximate description of the local behavior of nonlinear systems [11]. This method is called the local linearization of nonlinear systems.…”