Hi Derek,
What are the limits on this work?
I'm wondering about the sense, value and ethics of persuasion or discourse, if the behaviour of a design situation is beyond what an individual's brain can predict.
Best wishes,
Terry
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Dr. Terence Love, FDRS, AMIMechE, PMACM, MISI
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Edith Cowan University, Perth, Western Australia
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Keith,
Just a last quick one on this (which has been very satisfying): One of the reasons Lisa and I work in the ethnography of communication as a grounding for our policy design work is that it allows us to rapidly, and empirically, come to understand what some have called "persuadables" in a given discourse. I haven't read Don's work on affordances, but from the way we're talking, I suspect there is a strong resonance there. So please send me a reference (I know Don might be lurking out there on this forum too, so please do comment).
Overstepping here with some presumptions, but I'll bet that one can persuade if there is an affordance in place (metaphorically speaking, as "place" makes no real sense in discourse). Gerry Philipsen, U.Washington and the founder of speech code theory, is now working on the issue of "discursive force." I'll bet that's right on the money too.
Back to my lecture now on "reducing cultural barriers to maritime security." Which, believe it or not, really is a design problem.
d.
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