On Fri, 3 Jun 2005, jeremy hunsinger wrote:
> HCI is human-computer interaction... the question becomes 'what is it's
> dark side?'
It's an interesting question. One of the most fascinating aspects of
interaction design (to me!) is the inevitability of "designing in"
cultural/social/political ideals when we create systems. Every time you
interact with a computational artifact or with others THROUGH a
computational artifact, you are adhering to a set of social constraints
that are in some part embedded in the design of the system.
For a good read on the politics of designed objects:
http://www-personal.si.umich.edu/~rfrost/courses/Women+Tech/readings/Winner.html
There are any number of implicit cultural and value-laden assumptions that
we make every time we design something. Surely it's not hard to imagine
the "dark side" of HCI... what values ARE we designing into the systems we
build??
Andrea
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