Repositioning Users With Smart Artifacts as Participants in Collective Action
Salamanca, Juan, Judith Gregory · Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) · 2022
To cope effectively with everyday situations it is necessary to understand what the world affords to us. But, it is also fundamental to understand the meaning of one's action in the ecology of actions performed by human and nonhuman participants. We propose to dislocate the user's central position in a system and distribute his or her hegemony in a network of human and nonhuman participants. From this perspective, we offer a triadic structure of social relationships of human-artifact collectives as the minimal unit of analysis from which sociality, social action, and interactive complexity are enacted. We conclude by defining a theoretical-conceptual framework for the design of smart artifacts that can enable social interaction.