The philosophy and design of socially adept technologies

Context-aware artifacts can be seen as an important class of socially adept technologies. In this paper, we focus on the fact that disregarding trivial notions of context, context-aware artifacts are far from being capable of recognizing situations. Similarly, we are not aware of any other technologies that are able to understand social settings in a non-trivial way. In this paper, we sketch the underlying reasons and discuss some issues concerning the design of context-aware artifacts and socially adept technologies in general that result from these limitations.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2002
• Where: CHI
• Authors: Stephen Marsh, Lucy T. Nowell, John F. Meech, Kerstin Dautenhahn
• Keywords: Adept Technologies, CHI 2002, Context-aware Artifacts, Human Computer Interaction, Trivial Notions