ROBOTHER @ NordiCHI

26.10.2020
Online

Keynote »ROBOTHER: Non-trival Interactions with Trivial Machines« @ NordiCHI during Workshop »Otherware needs Otherness«

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Robots are no longer restricted to their safety cages in factory halls and become co-actors in our daily lives. We attribute almost human characteristics, emotions and aliveness to our technical counterpart, but we have to accept that the rational machine is something else. Teaching interaction design, we ask how future technology might be shaped if machines evolve from trivial tools to technological counterparts. What does interaction with otherware mean for designing artifacts and their behaviour?

The Keynote focused on interactions with trivial machines. Using practical examples from design education and research, the talk gave first insights why non-trivial interactions nevertheless occur, even though a machine follows a predetermined sequence of operations. 

Thanks to the Otherware Network for the invitation and organization of the workshop.