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Designing mediation

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ECCE '15: Proceedings of the European Conference on Cognitive Ergonomics 2015

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https://doi.org/10.1145/2788412.2788413

Published: 01 July 2015 Publication History

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The aim of this paper is to analyze the concept of mediation in the context of current HCI research, with a special focus on the use of the concept to inform and guide the design of interactive artifacts and environments. The paper discusses the adoption of the mediational perspective on digital technology in HCI and reflects on how the perspective has informed design-oriented research in the field. It is concluded that there is a general trend of moving beyond relatively basic notions of technology mediation toward a more differentiated view of mediation as a complex, multi-dimensional phenomenon. The paper outlines a set of dimensions, which characterize technological mediation in relation to properties of mediational means, subjects and objects of mediated activities, levels of mediation, dynamics of mediation, and context. Design implications of adopting a view of technological mediation as a multi-dimensional phenomenon are discussed.

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Designing mediation
1. Human-centered computing

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ECCE '15: Proceedings of the European Conference on Cognitive Ergonomics 2015

July 2015

185 pages

ISBN:9781450336123

DOI:10.1145/2788412

General Chairs:
Anke Dittmar
University of Rostock, Germany
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Marcin Sikorski
PJAIT, Warsaw and Gdansk University of Technology, Gdansk, Poland
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Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
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Krzysztof Marasek
PJAIT, Warsaw, Poland

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Glöss M(2024)New Perspectives for Phenomenology in Interaction DesignProceedings of the 13th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction10.1145/3679318.3685404(1-7)Online publication date: 13-Oct-2024
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3679318.3685404
Garcia Ayala JMannino MAbouzied AFarzan RLópez CCardoso Llach DQuercia DMustafa MNiu SWong-Villacrés M(2024)"I'll pay half the cost, for the loft" -- From Searching to Agreeing on Group Property RentalsCompanion Publication of the 2024 Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing10.1145/3678884.3681908(572-578)Online publication date: 11-Nov-2024
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3678884.3681908
Duong EParascho S(2023)Social Signals: An Adaptive Installation for Mediating Space During COVID-19 and BeyondComputer-Aided Architectural Design. INTERCONNECTIONS: Co-computing Beyond Boundaries10.1007/978-3-031-37189-9_36(547-561)Online publication date: 5-Jul-2023
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-37189-9_36

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