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“Robots can be said to have their own culture precisely because they don’t need to copy our sociologisms in order to be social, although what they do in their own social realm may not easily map on to things we do in our social realm”
— Stuart Geiger - The ethnography of robots
(Source: berglondon.com)
1 post filed under skeuomorph
“A “complacency artifact” is an interaction interface skeuomorph. It was designed by some interaction guy who was rather out of his depth, and trying to comfort himself and the user by applying a cliched mode of interaction. The refrigerator needs a webpage; cellphones need big solid phone buttons, smartphone apps should act like newspapers — that sort of thing.”
