Tracing a Paradigm for Externalization

Clark, Colin B. D.; Basman, Antranig

doi:10.1145/3079368.3079410

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“…Basman and Clark [2,9] introduce the notion that artefacts could and should take part in open ecologies. The ecology of use or function reflects how an artefact comes to be recognised and used amongst a collection of similar artefacts with similar functionsfor example, the ecology of spoons presents obvious and related affordances based on their relative size, shape and materials.…”

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“…Externalising the design of a piece of software is one of the key quantities that support open authorship. As described in [4,9], there are two principal components of externalisation.…”

Section: Externalisationmentioning

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“…We support Wegner's problematisation of computation, that "Algorithms and Turing Machines, like Cartesian thinkers, shut out the world during the process of problem solving". Taking computers and computation beyond the role of "problem solvers", we want to embed their activities in the real world as part of an open ecology of function [9]. We want to facilitate and empower creative networks to curate and share artefacts of interest.…”

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An anatomy of interaction: co-occurrences and entanglements

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Tchernavskij

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et al. 2018

Conference Companion of the 2nd International Conference on Art, Science, and Engineering of Programming

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We present a new taxonomy for describing the conditions and implementation of interactions. Current mechanisms for embedding interaction in software promote a hard separation between the programmers who produce the software, and the communities who go on to use it. In order to support open ecologies of function and fabrication, where this separation is negotiated by communities of users and designers, we need to reconceive those mechanisms. We describe interaction in two phases: Co-occurrence, the prerequisite conditions for an interaction to take place; and entanglement, the temporary coupling and interplay between elements participating in the interaction. We then sketch a blueprint of a system where those phases and their adjacent mechanisms enable communities of users to build and use interactive software. There are many ways of conceiving this new design space, and we present three dominant metaphors which we have employed so far, based on chemical reactions, quantum physics and cooking. We exhibit different systems which we have implemented based on these metaphors, and sketch how future systems will further empower citizens to design and inhabit their own interactions, express ownership over them and share them with communities of interest. CCS CONCEPTS • Human-centered computing → Interaction paradigms; Interactive systems and tools;

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Section: Ecologies Of Function and Fabricationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Externalising the design of a piece of software is one of the key quantities that support open authorship. As described in [4,9], there are two principal components of externalisation.…”

Section: Externalisationmentioning

confidence: 99%

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