Use
A user is someone who is aware of the instrumentality of his or her actions with objects and systems with which he or she interacts. When human beings interact with material of objects and systems, material changes and the user is affected as well. The potter shapes the clay into a pot, but the clay also centers the potter. A side effect of using mobile phones is for example that we often do not have to make exact appointments anymore. Current design paradigms switch form product to service design, considering social and ecological context significant.
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Shelly Tara,
VigneshThe transport arrangements by the organization play a substantial role to contribute in the respectability of the women employees…
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Shelly Tara,
The discourse of safety for women can actually be discussed as the discourse of sexual safety, where the concern is not that women…
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Charlie
Whether a frescoed wall, a cave mural, a digital projection or an Italian Renaissance perspective, virtual spaces are…
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Now, Huyghe’s A Journey that wasn’t evokes fiction by its title alone because of its poetic denial of a certain expedition that…
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Huyghe’s work, therefore, can only be fully understood with the help of a conceptual framework that reflects on these interrelated…
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The reason why this work relates not only to physical and mediated presence (the actual event versus the mediated event), but also…
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Huyghe already addressed issues of presence and witnessing in his early billboard, Chantier Barbès-Rochechouart (1994) (6). The…
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The relation between presence and representation in the arts has never been simple, as the many philosophical reflections and…
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Merleau-Ponty (1945/1962) developed the concept of intentionality to include what we would now describe as embodiment. He argues…
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CarolineThe spatial dimension is physical embodiment, but in the online environment we’re disembodied, time is disembodied. We can have…
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Being in flow with others makes it easier to act. When someone is out of flow, it is harder for this person to sense and use the…
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Our ICT Labs experience lab, the Presence Lab is located in a disused reactor hall on KTH campus and offers a 24x12x12 m underground…
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Anna
When exploring optical phenomena many test pieces need to be fabricated. Some can elevate the eye like a periscope, another lets you…
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The nature of glass remains anything but clear
by Kenneth Chang
Anna Carlgren
It is well known that panes of stained glass in old European churches are thicker at the bottom because glass is a slow-moving…
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Versatile and innovative use of glass at home and in public space will in the future provide for many new developments like…
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MartinWorking in the field of live performance, be it dance or theater in its many forms, compared to other arts disciplines is that the…
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Special K has come out with numerous television commercials promoting their Special K diet plan. Their latest ad features a…
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How to make strangers smile?
4th of june in the milan metro
It was a typical over heated, frustrated 2.30pm on a very warm and over crowded milan metro, people minding their own business, old…
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Lipika
Mobile Stories
A Reflection on the Use of Mobile Phones
This is a summary of the stories collected during a collaboration with young women in a slum of Delhi through storytelling. Through…
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The transcendence of time and place has been a human drive for centuries. Inventions of script, printing, film, radio, television…
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Bryony Lavery by
In good stories, finds Lavery, you feel a story and every secene is about slightly more than it seems to be about. It has the notion…
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Bryony Lavery by
An actor is believable when he inhabits his role, according to Lavery. In the rehearsal process actors do a lot of thinking both…
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Gavin MacFadyen by
Where a judge has to evaluate evidence, an investigative journalist also has to assemble and convey evidence. Next to this, the…
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Precisely how does the designer make his/her decisions in the process of design; what leads him or her to the final design solution?…
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What happens when the slow dance take on an interesting switch? The designer dancing the steps of the commissioner and vice versa.
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How can music bring people together for something more than a fleeting, aesthetic experience? How do you create music that…
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When contact between people takes place on a professional level it is very purposeful. But it doesn’t involve real engagement.…
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The audience seems to be more interested in seeing someone fighting and struggling through an audition, than in hearing a…
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Shelly Tara,
India by and large, with all its diversity, falls into the classic patriarchy social system (Kandiyoty, 1988; Medora, 2007). The…
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Shelly Tara,
The presence of men presented different planes of trust and witnessed presences involved in the transport arrangements of women…
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Shelly Tara,
In the era of globalization when work time is getting more flexible to the extent of even disappearing; the work is speeding up with…
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Afaina
The experience of space happens in the moment. Only without thoughts and sense of time one has the ability to actually experience…
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How a graphic pattern cut in safety glass can draw forth a smile. In our day-to-day lives most of us normally don't particularly…
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The unique optical properties of glass induce witnessing and make public space alive and visual. Optical phenomena can make an area…
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The Oxford English Dictionary defines “witness” as “the action or condition of being an observer of an event” (1). What…
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Presence has been (historically) defined as the sense of “being there” (Held and Durlach, 1992) and “the subjective experience…
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One of the great people working on synchrony was Condon. Working in psychiatry, he understood the relationship between rhythm and…
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The notion of entrainment refers to how two clocks become synchronized when their pendulums swing differently. Eventually they will…
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Is glass a liquid or a solid? Experts do not agree on this one. Some argue that glass is an under-cooled liquid and not a solid,…
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Truly unbreakable glass would be a dream come true since all mobile devices depend on glass. In 1962 Corning Incorporated invented a…
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Light passes through glass mostly in one direction. Prismatic glass can direct light in a certain, pre-calculated, direction.…
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Visitors almost always want to change places with each other. They signal and yell to each other through the glass "Do you see…
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Lipika
Retired Phone
A Short Story
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One of the co-researchers during my collaboration with the young women collective in Delhi, shared her experience on receiving her…
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Questionaire about strangers
Asking strangers how they deal with strangers.
"hello how are you? I hope you are well. My name is Martin Butler and I'm busy collecting research for a new project that…
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1.how do you create intimacy with strangers..? 2.how do you take responsibility for people you don know...? 3. what happens…
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My research concludes that a presence-in-person paradigm prevails in our society, founded on the expectations of trust and knowledge…
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For most people, there is a great discrepancy between perceiving and understanding computers. Many people look at a computer, but do…
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Bryony Lavery by
As playwright Lavery suggests a rhythm, using her sense of where people’s behavior needs silence, focusing on the eloquence of…
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Gavin MacFadyen by
When watching documentaries or the news on television, people can only sense the truth through the filter of their own experience,…
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Gavin MacFadyen by
Given current technology the Internet facilitates millions of bloggers offering stories that could be used as witness accounts.…
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Self-witnessing is vital to human social interaction, so what happen when a designer fails to witness his/her own presence? And for…
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argument, theory:
Every YUTPA possesses possibilities for action and distinct possibilities for feedback that designers can use. Also, an action in…
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The challenge is to break through them without simply replacing them with new patterns. Because without a prescribed behavioral…
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A concert was not a passive experience, but an activity. In church or during parties and celebrations, participating in the music…
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Shelly Tara,
Article 66(b) of the Indian 1948 Factories Act states: no women shall be required or allowed to work in any factory except between…
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Shelly Tara,
Walby (1997) discusses public patriarchy in the form of segregation and subordination of women within the structure of paid…
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Shelly Tara,
The rape and murder of a woman call centre employee in Bangalore in 2005 received media attention worldwide (The Times of India,…
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Glass plays a significant role in modern society and glass is as carrier of information an indispensable material in human…
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When looking at this picture at least three convex lenses are involved. In the human eye (1), in the glass (2), and in the camera…
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My fascination with glass started, at the age of eight, when I got my first pair of glasses. What a fantastic tool. Suddenly I was…
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Zoro
Time plays another role in the work, though in a less noticeable way. My work wears quickly. It tends to break, wear out, or stop…
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In face-to-face contexts transactions are emerging out of rhythm and coordination. People say that the first moment you meet…
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There is something in the space between our bodies that you can sense and feel how another person is. It may be just a slight…
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Professor Philip Moriarty, University of Nottingham, is shedding light on the difference between opaque and transparent materials.
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Curved or angled glass allows the viewer to see sometimes less, sometimes more. By changing the thickness of the glass images can be…
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Glass is a useful and versatile material, unbeatable when there is a need to force light to go around the corner. Imagine bringing…
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With my work I want to demonstrate how minimal alterations can have a monumental effect and that with the help of glass it is…
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Love as the seventh course
The love solo's in B.O.B
"B.O.B" was a project whereby we invited 100 people per night for a seven course dinner, and for the seventh course they were…
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How to Make a "LOVE" Solo
A Simple Guide
What you will need to begin with is: Five to Seven Seasoned Performers Five to Seven Plastic Chairs A Rehearsal Space ( 8m x…
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What is new, today, is that it has become possible to populate these architectural extensions; to inhabit them in ways that allow…
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The qualitative exploratory study ‘Witnessed Presence and Systems Engineering’ presented in this paper approaches networked…
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Bryony Lavery by
When rehearsing her play Stockholm, which is about the relationship of two people who are very much in love with each other but very…
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Gavin MacFadyen by
For MacFaydyen a good witness is critical to investigating or reporting. A good witness is someone who bears a truthful account of…
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experience:
Gavin MacFadyen by
Having a professional career in investigative journalism for over 30 years, MacFaydyen states that technology deeply affects the way…
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Is the presence of the manufacturer complicating the existing designer-commissioner relationship?
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Do the end-users have a presence in the design process? Being the ultimate client, what impact do the end-users have on the design?
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You can step right into the centre of important events.
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Nobody is an amateur at being themselves.
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An audience can identify with the auditioner because it can imagine what that person must be going through.