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Conceptualizing and Designing the Process of Appropriation: The Story of a Disappearance
Gapenne,Olivier; Declerck,Gunnar
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2009
Editor:
Chakrabarti, A.
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Human Factors, Aesthetics, Semantics, ans Semiotics
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363-370
Abstract:
We consider here two modes of relation to an instrument: “in-hand” and “put-down”. For the user, these two modes are phenomenologically mutually exclusive; we discuss the conditions for passing from one mode to the other. More precisely, the constitution and the effectiveness of the “in-hand” mode for a new tool depends on a process of appropriation that needs to be characterized and conceptualized. For the design of interaction,taking into account this appropriation process translates into writing a scenario for a disappearance, that of the tool itself, in favour of the space of action that the tool makes possible
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