Okay - not sure that you can design what people say to each other, but I completely flaked and forgot the Stanford and Milgram experiments - in both cases the researchers were able to "design" the interactions between prisoners/prison guards and torturer/tortured and showed pretty decisively that interactions can be designed, and even the most psychologically healthy/stable individuals can, under certain circumstances, become sadists. Thanks for keeping me honest.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_prison_experiment http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 8:06 AM, Andy Polaine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think what comes out of a lot of the examples that you mentioned is just > how much people will bend almost any media into a form of communication. > This is, for me, one of the most fascinating things about humans and also > one of most interesting aspects of designing interaction or, rather, > interactive systems. I've seen all sorts of interactive artworks, for > example, that visitors have bent into communication with each other even > though that wasn't the original intention. If people can leave a mark, they > try to communicate. > > You can't design how people interact or what people say to each other - >> but you can make it easy/hard for them to do so. >> > > "Would you like fries with that?" - You can design what people say to each > other and it happens a lot in corporate culture and politics. The question > is if it is ever going to be meaningful... > > > Best, > > Andy > > -- ~ will "Where you innovate, how you innovate, and what you innovate are design problems" --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Will Evans | User Experience Architect tel: +1.617.281.1281 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] aim: semanticwill gtalk: semanticwill twitter: semanticwill skype: semanticwill --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
