Appropriating Technology - How We Make Digital Tools Our Own

How we use digital technologies and make them our own. Appropriation is the process by which we turn digital technologies into instruments for our own use. Since we do not use technologies but rather our appropriations of them, understanding why and how these appropriations develop is important and useful for both users and for designers. However, appropriation is an under-explored aspect of human computer interaction. In He provides an analysis of the phenomena of play; how the way we develop (we evolve, we learn) is key; how our human high-level needs also play an important--though often unconscious--role; how the current adaptation means offered by most technologies give us some degree of freedom to align technologies to our needs and desires (although they are far from fully satisfactory); and how these design aspects may be improved.

Product details

• Authors: Pierre Tchounikine, Tchounikine Pierre
• Publisher: The MIT Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 07.10.2025, delayed
• EAN: 9780262553872
• ISBN: 978-0-262-55387-2
• No. of pages: 246
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 17 mm
• Series: Acting with Technology
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); DESIGN / History & Criticism, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Social Aspects, History of art / art & design styles, Human-Computer Interaction, Industrial / commercial art & design, history of design, Impact of science & technology on society, Impact of science and technology on society, Human–computer interaction, COMPUTERS / Human-Computer Interaction (HCI)