What Things Do: Philosophical Reflections on Technology, Agency, and Design

By P. Verbeek. 2005

1,249 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Cognitive Neuroscience, History and Philosophy of Science

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In Astronomy and Astrophysics

1. Philip R. Ross
2. David Kirsh
3. Shaowen Bardzell
4. Catherine Adams
5. Nigel Thrift
6. S. Wensveen

In Cognitive Neuroscience

1. Philip R. Ross
2. David Kirsh
3. Shaowen Bardzell
4. Catherine Adams
5. Nigel Thrift
6. S. Wensveen
7. Joel Krueger

In History and Philosophy of Science

1. Philip R. Ross
2. David Kirsh
3. Shaowen Bardzell
4. Catherine Adams
5. Nigel Thrift
6. S. Wensveen

Citations in the corpus

• Embodied cognition and the magical future of interaction design (2013, background): “This view moves us beyond Gibsonian exegesis to a more enactive paradigm [Varela et al. 1991].”
• Beyond the user: use and non-use in HCI (2009, neutral): “The idea of technological experience as inherently inauthentic has a long and problematic history (Verbeek 2005) but it is also suggestive of a particular line of analysis.”
• PowerPoint, habits of mind, and classroom culture (2006, background): “They suggest that ‘informed’ teachers are always in a position to repurpose or even subvert a digital technology’s ‘implicit users manual’ (Verbeek 2005) to suit their local pedagogical intentions.”
• Re-inventing invention: new tendencies in capitalist commodification (2006, background): “In a sense, the aim is simply to see the thing itself, to see things as they ‘merely’ are, through a material aesthetics (Verbeek 2005) that allows objects to be turned into ‘poetics’.”
• Feminist HCI: taking stock and outlining an agenda for design (2010, background): “Material ecology theory emphasizes the extent to which an artifact participates in a system of artifacts [73, 52].”
• Designing behavior in interaction : using aesthetic experience as a mechanism for design (2010, background): “The work of Verbeek (2005) on Technological Mediation shows that the way a device behaves influences a person’s response to it.”
• Pay-per-use business models as a driver for sustainable consumption: Evidence from the case of HOMIE (2018, background): “A third approach to study sustainable consumption is from the field of Philosophy of Technology (Verbeek, 2005), in which the impact of technology on human beings is the main focus.”