I think that social interactions are an incredibly important facet of interaction design. One of my favorite examples of this is from the Spring 2004 issue of Design Issues. It's about Kate Wells and the Siyazama Project in South Africa.
http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=6&tid=13677 The article discusses Design as a part of social transformation. Wells designed a interaction in which the women of the Zulu tribe could construct beadwork dolls. The design wasn't really about the dolls, though they were integral to the process. Instead, the act of constructing the dolls was designed to provide a communal setting for the women of the tribe to discuss AIDS and its prevention, circumventing the cultural taboo against such discussions. // jeff . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=35099 ________________________________________________________________ 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
