Two Monologues Do not Make a Dialogue: Preview of Norman’s “Design of Future Things”

A quick preview of Don Norman’s next work “Design of Future Things”, looks intriguing in the 1st chapter itself. He discusses the idiom of interaction between human and smart systems that are going to have a lot of work delegated to, in the years to come.
His unique insights about human behavioral dispositions with respect to [...]

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I Am The Story I Tell…And I’ll Sell it For Free!

The dispositions of the new generation of customers, empowered and connected through technologies and information, who some like to call ‘the Prosumers’, is yet to be a full blown ‘phenomenon’ but the signs of a new era in social consumption, production and co-creation are loud and clear. With the ubiquity of information access, and the [...]

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Can Television Revolution in India be the Solution to Mass Market Affordable Computing!

In a country that has a very strong media culture, millions of people with their own views, burgeoning TV reality show audiences, it is hardly surprising that the television industry is going through a major digital revolution and opening up exciting design spaces for a truly ubiquitous, interactive and popular medium. It may not [...]

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At What Cost Pervasive?: IBM Systems Journal Article by D. C. Dryer

With the advent of pervasive systems, computers are becoming a larger part of our social lives than ever before. Depending on the design of these systems, they may either promote or inhibit social relationships. We consider four kinds of social relationships: a relationship with the system, system-mediated collaborative relationships, relationships with a community, and interpersonal [...]

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