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Mark Pearsall Advanced Design Research
California College of the Arts 4.30.2012
Participatory Design& Meaningful Technology
Background
Technology has created an interconnectedness of people that has never happened before. It is this interconnectedness and meaningful aspect of how technology positively effects our lives that I am focused on.
Objective
Can technology be anything more than just technology? Is there away for technology to help awaken and participate in the human spirit? How do participants in technological processes go beyond the intended use value.
Objective
The apparent disconnect people have when relating themselves to technology, and how different personas
connect with themselves, nature, and other people.
The Naturalist The Seeker The Optimist
Methodology
Continued Interviews with Past Participants Developing the framework in which to have a conversation, inviting the participants to look at their use and relationship of technology.
Target Market
Ages 23 - 29 60% Female 40% MaleOf Varying Cultural BackgroundEveryday Users of Technology
Self Examination I see myself “going into” the computer when involved in projects and having a connection of my own personal energies and the act of computation as a process of harmony between man and machine.
Methodology
Methodology
Technoshamanism Attempts to use technological paradigms for the modification of consciousness in reality and magick.
Methodology
Quantum Mysticism propose the idea that an underlying consciousness or intel-ligence connects everyone, based on the fact that quantum fields can be interpreted as extending infinitely in space
Methodology
Jaron Lanier You Are Not A Gadget Lanier’s argument for that humanity as a critical mass does not act as a large organism and that within the crowd – the voice of the individual is often diminished.
Tools Show & Tell
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Technology allows me to stay in touch with my family, I can’t express how important this is for me and how big role it play in my life.”
The Self
Family
Security
Daydream
Imagination
Knowledge
Tools Show & Tell
Digital Tarot is a Motivational Tool for me to be inspired and to do my best everyday.
Tools Critical Technology
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During one of my trips abroad I experience a death in the family. Although this wasn’t a positive experience, I was still able to stay in contact with my family through texting even while I was in a remote part of the country.
Tools Future-Casting
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In a more abstract level, I imagine it to be so integrated to our daily lives that technology becomes the medium for how we live.
Analysis
What Is Technology? It is something applicable for human, based on knowledge we learn and develop
A tool created for a specific purpose
Technology is a complicated method of doing something, performing certain function
Insights
Participants view Technology as a source of connection to knowledge, people, and to their emotions
Beyond the utility of Technology devices there is a sense of security, compassion, joy that people are able to share with one another In the Future Technology will be seamlessly intertwined in human interaction
“I see cloud technology and our powerful phones and tablets as being a personable experience. I will be able to connect constantly and research, play, navigate, study, and create whenever and wherever I want.”
Meta
Physical
TechnologyThe Self Collective Unconscious
Individuals Family & Friends Communities
“The Most Important Thing About a Technology is How it Changes People.”-Jaron Lanier