Understanding Interaction: The Relationships Between People Technology Culture and the Environment

<p><em>Understanding Interaction</em> explores the interaction between people and technology in the broader context of the relations between the human-made and the natural environments. It is not just about digital technologies – our computers smartphones the Internet – but all our technologies such as mechanical electrical and electronic. Our ancestors started creating mechanical tools and shaping their environments millions of years ago developing cultures and languages which in turn influenced our evolution. </p><p>Volume 1 looks into this deep history starting from the tool-creating period (the longest and most influential on our physical and mental capacities) to the settlement period (agriculture domestication villages and cities written language) the industrial period (science engineering reformation and renaissance) and finally the communication period (mass media digital technologies and global networks). </p><p>Volume 2 looks into humans in interaction – our physiology anatomy neurology psychology how we experience and influence the world and how we (think we) think. From this transdisciplinary understanding design approaches and frameworks are presented to potentially guide future developments and innovations. </p><p>The aim of the book is to be a guide and inspiration for designers artists engineers psychologists media producers social scientists etc. and as such be useful for both novices and more experienced practitioners. </p><p>Image Credit: Still of interactive video pattern created with a range of motion sensors in the <i>Facets</i> kaleidoscopic algorithm (based underwater footage of seaweed movement) by the author on 4 February 2010 for a lecture at Hyperbody at the Faculty of Architecture TU Delft NL.</p>