Virtually living together

  • Authors:
  • Konrad Tollmar;Stefan Junestrand;Olle Torgny

  • Affiliations:
  • Smart Things and Environments Studio, Interactive Institute, PO BOX 1028, S-10450 Stockholm, Sweden and Center for User-Oriented IT Design, The Royal Institute of Technology, S-100 44 Stockholm, S ...;Smart Things and Environments Studio, Interactive Institute, PO BOX 1028, S-10450 Stockholm, Sweden and Center for User-Oriented IT Design, The Royal Institute of Technology, S-100 44 Stockholm, S ...;Smart Things and Environments Studio, Interactive Institute, PO BOX 1028, S-10450 Stockholm, Sweden and Center for User-Oriented IT Design, The Royal Institute of Technology, S-100 44 Stockholm, S ...

  • Venue:
  • DIS '00 Proceedings of the 3rd conference on Designing interactive systems: processes, practices, methods, and techniques
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

In this paper, we discuss the possibility of a holistic approach in the design of new media for interpersonal communication. The key argument is that if we base our design on daily practice, this may inhibit truly innovative ideas from taking form, and, on the contrary, if we design using pure intuition and visions, the design is likely to fail due to a lack of connection to daily practice. Scenario-based design was hence used to makes us envision new media while field observations such as ethnographic studies, become a tool to retain the ties with everyday life. This duality can also be implemented, as we will describe, in a design that makes a bi-language/bi-levelled understanding of a product possible.