Technology might at least distinguish among the life patterns that it so often alters. Designers of digital technology need to recognise living situations amid the legacy of conventions that they so readily declare obsolete. In a a field better known for its frontier mentality, consider the role of typology.
McCullough, M. (2004). Digital Ground: architecture, pervasive computing, and environmental knowing. Cambridge. MIT Press.
We need a typology of situated interactions. By extending living patterns of inhabited space, we can strive to make technology simpler, more adaptive, and more social. The alternative is chaos. Much as free-form experimentation with unprecedented technologies in modern building often led to socially detrimental results, now pervasive computing creeps toward huge design failures. Expect wrecks.
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