Hi everybody!
Thank you for your answer Mattias.
I totally agree with you with the idea that users (designers in this
case) with their computers create a system with its own properties, and
as you say: “they perform and act as one functional system in a
physical and social environment”.
Through the use of the object the individual and the object change
congruently, adapting to each other in a way that can be defined by the
term 'structural coupling' as proposed by Maturana and Varela. To them,
structural coupling takes place when the history of interactions
between two or more systems becomes a history of recursive coherent
structural changes in which the participant systems change together
congruently.
You can find the text “from interface to interphase” in the blog I
prepared to my industrial design master’s students in Mexico and Panama
(in Spanish, sorry!): interphasedesign.wordpress.com
The difference between interface and interphase is not about spelling,
is about this wider understanding of the relation between the user and
the object.
I will look for more on Joint Cognitive Systems!
Best Regards,
Gustavo
References:
Humberto Maturana and Francisco Varela, El arbol del conocimiento,
Lumen-Editorial Universitaria, Buenos Aires, 2003
MDI Gustavo V. Casillas Lavin
Centro de Investigaciones de Diseño Industrial
UNAM
Mexico
interphasedesign.wordpress.com
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