Te text analyzes the work of artists who use augmentation, information and immersion in specifc contexts—public or private spaces. Te aim of the analysis is to understand socio-cultural transformations in the felds of art and technology in social space and what new forms of aggregation and participation have developed, providing an opportunity to refect on new concepts of democracy that are eme...

This paper reports on a theory-based empirical investigation of cultural considerations in the appropriation of affordances and on the development of technological intersubjectivity in a computer supported collaborative learning environment. Socio-technical affordances are “action-taking possibilities” and “meaning-making opportunities” in a socio-technical system relative to the capabilities o...

modernization as a process also affects the way a society thinks, its attitudes, beliefs, food, dress habits, and cultural patterns at the level of individuals, and as the individuals can be seen as units of the society. in this study, an attempt has been made to understand the consequences of modernization in the traditional housing pattern as reflected in the changes in kitchen. for the prese...

People buy products to express their desired identity and therefore prefer products that fit their own personality. The personality of products is created by implicit and explicit design features. However the translation of implicit and explicit design characteristics into new designs is difficult for designers. Especially for beginning design students, giving meaning to products by thinking ab...

This study examined older lesbians’ and gays’ experiences and expectations of Australian health and aged care service delivery. It was exploratory and comprised in-depth interviews with 14 older lesbian and gay people in the Blue Mountains, west of Sydney. Interview data were analyzed according to the principles and techniques of narrative research. This included an analysis of the socio-lingui...

This paper investigates the influence of culture on product design in Botswana, a topic on which there little previous research. It is argued that product innovation should be assimilated within the context of Botswana’s own culture but it has been observed that designers have not yet been able to encode cultural phenomena to the same extent as physical ones. The basis of this paper is that the...