SNSF research project @critical media lab, IXDM, FHNW
10/2019 - 09/2022
Team: Jan Torpus, Christiane Heibach, Jonas Kellermeyer,
Partners: University Regensburg
PARADIGMS OF UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING
TECHNOLOGY- HUMAN - DESIGN
This interdisciplinary research project investigates ubiquitous computing technologies with regard to their world-constructing power. In particular, it focuses on the epistemological consequences
of sensory actor systems, which increasingly influence our relationship to the environment in everyday life as well as in the sciences.
Content and goal:
Ubiquitous computing technologies are currently being discussed everywhere, as they imperceptibly but lastingly shape our perception of the world by means of strategies of invisibility and
immediacy. The associated, mostly implicit processes will be investigated in the following research questions:
- Technology: How does perception emerge in a technologically based sensor-actuator system in contrast to and in resonance with human actors?
- Human: What strategies do humans develop to cognitively and emotionally open up a technologically expanded, responsive environment?
- Design: Which design principles can be derived for an environmentally driven human-machine interaction and how does environmental (ubiquitous) interfacing between the human and the machine work?
These questions are addressed in a theory-based manner and examined in experimental design settings that are empirically evaluated with subjects. The Journey experiment is used to study human behavior and attitudes in unfamiliar territories, and the Periphery experiment is used to study the effects of environmental information systems in a work environment