Abstract
This is a jacket that will start conversations for you if you are too shy to do it yourself. Get to know more people, make friends, meet that special someone or simply break down your social walls!
This is NOT a Google AD…but the plain function of the parafunctional concept we’ve presented this week.
The term parafunctionality was coined by A. Dunne in his PhD Thesis. Since I like Art as a way of human expression with almost no boundaries, it’s always interesting and exciting to work on the line that separates interaction design and arts.
Parafunctionality is a peculiar use quality that in my opinion is a step further the other ones I wrote about (pliability, fluency, social actability). I think that a design product that has not only good qualities but critical qualities as well, is a good example of how the design can address an important social and moral role in the society: making a better world.
Project by: Pietro Desiato, Festim Zuta and Daniel KarlssonThis concept has been developed on the theme of fluency that means “the degree in which your able to move between media streams” (J. Lowgren). We’ve focused on the shopping activity because it is a very complex experience that involves a lot of media streams, first of all the city.
In this project we’ve tried to be fluent and not only useful. That means that we’ve thought about interactions that do not invade the personal experience of shopping but just work in the background. They offer the person an “experience add-on”. The interesting thing is that the person has the power to choose if she wants to give attention to the system or not. We think that the fluency of this system, that we’ve called in a very marketable way iShop, is in its discretion: it works silently and do not affect the your everyday life, until you want. (More …)