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Designing Smart Objects in Everyday Life - Intelligences, Agencies, Ecologies (Hardcover)
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Designing Smart Objects in Everyday Life - Intelligences, Agencies, Ecologies (Hardcover)
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The dramatic acceleration of digital technologies and their
integration into physical products is transforming everyday
objects. Our domestic appliances, furniture, clothing, are growing
in intelligence. Smart objects are increasingly capable of
interacting with humans in a purposeful manner with intentionality.
This collection of essays, descriptions of empirical work, and
design case studies brings together perspectives from interaction
design, the humanities, science and technology studies, and
engineering, to map, explore and interrogate ways in which our
relationships with everyday smart objects might expand and be
re-imagined. By offering a critical assessment on the growing place
of smart technology in everyday environments, this book outlines a
transdisciplinary research agenda for the future of 'smartness' to
help define, envision, and inspire future collaborative design
practices. These essays propose an understanding and design of
smart objects that embrace their hybrid nature as shifting and
blending tools, agents, machines, or even 'creatures'. Authors
argue that smart objects have the potential to enter into multiple
kinds of relationships with humans, and form complex human-nonhuman
ecologies that are both meaningful and empowering in the context of
everyday life. This book also shines a light on the hidden
infrastructures behind the functioning of smart objects with
stirring debates tackling questions of technology, human values,
and economic and ecological impact. Whether you are a design
scholar, design practitioner or design activist this book will
inspire through offering theoretical insights, design concepts and
practical ways on how to engage in this research agenda for future
smartness.
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