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Download Presence and the Design of Trust
I defended my dissertation succesfully on 11th of April 2007 at the University of Amsterdam. Promotor was Professor Cees Hamelink, ...
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proposal, conclusion
Design as Research
One of the major findings of this study is the fact that the design of presence relates to the design of trust in social interaction. ...
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description, collective history
Demo or die
While I was associated and involved with Internet design over the last 15 years I observed hype after hype arise. New tools shed new ...
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description, personal history, collective history
Waag Society and Performing Arts Labs
My personal professional history during these 15 years has been characterized by affiliations to four organizations, which have each ...
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proposal, methodology, specific
A pragmatic perspective on trust:universal declaration of human rights
While conducting the research I found that I needed to make trust operational from the pragmatic perspective of individual human beings. ...
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definition
The word 'Design'
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The word 'design' in the research question of this study refers to the practice of creating experiences for people by making products or ...
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description, general history
Establishing trust and truth
As a concept, presence does not only have philosophical, biological, psychological and technological dimensions. It also affects ...
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description, personal history, collective history, question
Doors of Perception
A last crucial influence that I will discuss in my approach and my understanding of the research question "How to design presence ...
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description, methodology, personal history, key-informants, theory
Techno-biography
In Science and Technology Studies (STS) actors are taken extremely seriously and are often the centre of attention in a study. But in ...
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description, argument, general history
Different scale and different media in one communication process
Through the use of media people try to overcome the boundaries of time and place to which our physical bodies are bound. With the ...
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description, concept, argument
Patterns between presence and absence
In the patterns of presence and absence in the variety of mediated and unmediated forms, people produce and reproduce social ...
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description, citation, argument, general history
Human history from the perspective of presence technologies
Even architecture can be read as presence technology since it shapes an infrastructure that facilitates certain forms of communication ...
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description, argument, collective history
Automation and transaction technologies: acting at a distance
In automation and transaction technologies a series of predefined actions has to be executed to allow a certain person to do something. ...
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description, citation, argument, general history
Monitoring digital presence
Digital behaviour is also monitored. By gathering and analysing server information the behaviour and the actions of online identities ...
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description, methodology, collective history
Military research:changing scales
Military research into presence has to be mentioned here first, even though I do not intend to elaborate upon it. That would require ...
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description, methodology, collective history
European Research: to measure being there
In science as in the arts a lot of research has been carried out that can be understood as presence research even though it has not been ...
A stranger on my path
When I am confronted by a stranger on my path, I have to know whether he is really there and whether he will attack me or not. I have to ...
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concept, argument, general history, theory
Enacting 'being alive'
Haraway's insights imply consequences for the sense of presence on an even deeper level. In the work of Haraway, and others like Judith ...
To be raised by a computer
The last story I want to share in this section poses the question of whether there is a distinction to be made between mediated presence ...
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description, concept
People I know and people I do not know
Among the crowds that characterize the many urban environments we distinguish 'the mass' and 'people we know'. We perceive the presence ...
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proposal, argument
The 'other' changes shape
I become more aware of my presence in the world because I notice that another person perceives my presence. In the light of this study ...
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The two events are well documented in the sense that the proceedings were made available based on the audio material (Riemens 1989, ...
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methodology, specific, general history, key-informants
Introduction
Before describing the cases I will first sketch the context in which they were conceived. Each case study is what I will call a ...
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description, collective history, general history
A new form of public sphere
The GHP and the 0+Ball were two of the first events in a range of gatherings, and an inspiration to networks that still exist today like ...
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description, concept, proposal, methodology, collective history
Engineering space into place
To understand why certain programmes are successful I turn to the distinction that is made between space and place in the variety of ...
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description, methodology, collective history
To create 'my Paradiso'
Pierre Ballings emphasized that the production process of Paradiso is 'content-driven'. As a result the editing, the marketing, the ...
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citation, argument, collective history
Issues serve as occasions for public involvement in politics
Democratic politics is concerned with issues that require organization of a public, and the modification of democratic spaces, if they ...
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description, methodology, personal history, collective history
To evaluate, learn and distribute by sensing
The way a networked event, which happens in the public domain, is evaluated is very different to how a scientific experiment is ...
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description, concept, argument
The intuition of designers and the meta-text multimedia education
When designing a party, an event, or an application simple questions become hugely important: how to enter, how to identify, how to ...
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description, collective history, general history
Press
In the press the issues of the new computer era, which were raised by the GHP, were sketched convincingly. Hackers want to show that ...
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description, collective history
Spread the Byte
"During the summer of 1989 the world as we know it will go into overload. An interstellar particle stream of hackers, phonephreaks, ...
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Register
Register here to partcipate in this site. Security We store your password in our database. For security reasons it is encoded in ...
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description, citation, argument
Practice of design changed
Because of the development of digital technology, design practice has changed rapidly over the last two decades: the tools used to ...
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citation, theory
Deep design
Lunenfeld argues for a deeper understanding of design from a historical and aesthetic perspective. "Even more important than ...
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theory, question
Unity of Time, Place and Action
In the performing arts the "Unity of Time, Place and Action", which is attributed to Aristotle even though he did not actually ...
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definition, methodology, specific
Two case studies of two networked events
This is an exploratory case study in which two networked events that took place in Amsterdam in 1989 and 1990 will be analysed. A ...
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definition, specific
The Word 'trust'
The word 'trust' in the title of the dissertation points to the qualitative standards for the settings of social interaction I intend to ...
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methodology, collective history, question
Fundamental research in the performing arts
The staging of 'networked' performances was especially useful because fundamental issues could be explored in short periods of time. ...
New methodologies and standard procedures
In order to address the previously formulated intentions this study has to be an exploratory study, since a theory about the social ...
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methodology, theory, text laboratory
Text Laboratory
The term ‘text laboratory’ is attractive for describing the work that was carried out in this research project. This methodology is ...
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Diagram 1: every medium uses distinct time-space configurations
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Diagram 3: What is communicated in which way via which medium, and how these influence each other, is often unclear.
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description, argument, theory
Aura's in the digital age
A variety of sciences and practices can be understood from a presence perspective, as has been stated above. This study focuses on ...
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description, methodology, collective history
Industrial and commercial research: to market new experiences
In the media labs of large technological corporations around the world, and especially and foremost in the USA, the mediation of ...
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description, citation, specific, conclusion
A science of trade-offs
Wijnand IJsselsteijn, researcher at TU Eindhoven, has been involved with the European Presence programme and has been responsible for ...
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description, concept, definition
The layers of presence
In 2004 an amazing article was written, 'The Layers of Presence: A Bio-cultural Approach to Understanding Presence in Natural and ...
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description, argument, parresia
Blurring between real and unreal
For survival, the blurring between real and unreal situations is problematic at first sight. When one needs to act for survival one has ...
AIBO, the robotdog
The first story is about a robot dog that was made In Sony's Research Lab in Paris in 2001. Because the robot dog does not mediate the ...
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concept, argument, theory
To settle for certain behaviour
The concept of media schemata is crucial for research into the domain of designing presence in environments where technology plays a ...
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proposal, argument, theory
Not-You is information (biased or not)
I can be with my lover, leave the house and pass a 'bump' and not even notice this person. Where did all my love go? When I am alone in ...
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About Being-Here.net
When I just finished my dissertation in 2007 Mediamatic Lab offered to collaborate with me to create a dissertation web 2.0 of the work ...
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Around 1000 people took part in each of the events. Each event used on and offline communication in connection with one another. The two ...
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description, general history
Dutch politics
Amsterdam, the capital of the social democracy of the Netherlands, had a marked climate of tolerance at the time; for centuries, and ...
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Rock'n Roll Character
The culture and tradition of Paradiso guarantee a quality and a certain edge. As a producer I would use the fact that Paradiso is ...
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description, concept, personal history
Influenced by the media-landscape
Developments in media and modern art, including the performing arts, deeply influence how the visitors will perceive and experience the ...
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description, methodology, collective history
No curator or editing effort should be sensed
Sligting, the musical artistic director of Paradiso, elaborates further on this approach. Paradiso does not just want to be a hall one ...
Formulated perception in historical context
For such political spaces to work they have to give people an experience, as was my conviction in 1989. Having studied social sciences ...
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description, collective history
Lots of infrastructure to offer moments of significance
To create good infrastructures is an art in itself. It requires a lot of technical insights about technology, finance and the behaviour ...
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description, collective history
Galactic Hacker Party/International Conference on Alternative use of Technology Amsterdam
We had worked for several months to make this happen together with Rop Gonggrijp note 92 and Patrice Riemens note 93 . Meeting the ...
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Hackers were a new phenomenon for the media at the time, while there was enough awareness that computers had become more and more ...
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description, methodology, specific, techno-biography, text laboratory
Presence Research & Science and Technology Studies
Nevertheless, the human reality that is facilitated by technology is of such a complex nature that a clear understanding of its effect ...
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argument, personal history, conclusion
Design and human behaviour
This statement by Lunenfeld resonates with the experience that the research question at the heart of this study was originally ...
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specific, general history
Millions of people have gone online
This study aims to contribute to design as research from the perspective of the social sciences. In 1993 the graphical interface to the ...
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methodology, specific, theory
'Social theory' provides context
The study "Presence and the Design of Trust" wants to explore the influence of technology on the social structures that evolve ...
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concept
Techno-diversity
In nature, adaptation processes have created bio-diversity. In today's world, where technology is embedded in so many systems, we are ...
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argument
Scale challenges structure
Technology strives to develop better and more numerous translations and mediations of presence. The 'classical structures' try to adapt, ...
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description, question
Hogeschool van Amsterdam and the Digital University of the Netherlands
In 1999 I started working for the University of Professional Education in Amsterdam and through this institution I was involved in the ...
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description, methodology, specific
Parresia
In 1983 Michel Foucault gave a series of lectures at the University of Berkeley in which he addressed the old Greek idea of Parresia for ...
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Diagram 2: In one communication trajectory information and communication pass through different media spaces
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Focus on mediation and witnessing
Below I will first make an inventory of presence technologies that exist today, dd. 2006. Then I will sketch current presence research ...
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description, concept, definition
The broad spectrum of information and communication
The broad spectrum of information and communication technologies can be divided into three groups of technologies from the perspective ...
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description, argument, general history
Monitoring physical presence
The first group of surveillance and identification technologies that I will consider is concerned with the monitoring of physical ...
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description, methodology, collective history
Art as research: to sense the here and there
In annual international art events like Ars Electronica note 44 , DEAF note 45 , ISEA note 46 , artists present their latest work in ...
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Three presences
IJsselsteijn also makes the following observation about the future: "With more advanced media, it will become increasingly hard to ...
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description, citation, argument, general history
The sense of presence is part of human evolution
Riva, Waterworth and Waterworth were inspired by Damasio in their proposal for a deeper understanding of Presence. After having studied ...
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description, argument, theory
We have all become 'cyborgs'
Another element in thinking about natural presence in modern life is elaborated upon by Donna Haraway. She argues that technologies have ...
Love on the Internet
A second story I want to share is about two people communicating with each other via Internet. Where feedback is almost immediate, ...
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concept, argument, theory
Time, place, social group and culture determine schemata
In Science and Technology Studies the complexity of such arrangements in which nature, culture and technology are deeply interwoven, is ...
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description, proposal, theory
I and Thou, You and not-You
In this section I want to argue that the way we are witnessed and witness other people, deeply influences the perception of our ...
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Before describing the cases I will first sketch the context in which they were conceived. Each case study is what I will call a ...
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Because I have approached the case studies from the perspective of 'producing multiple presences', I have asked close collaborators of ...
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description, concept, methodology, collective history
Production houses for art and technology
The two case studies were produced in the context of Paradiso and in collaboration with many other partners in Amsterdam and abroad. It ...
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description, collective history, general history
Many musicans, many scholars
Paradiso is a former church in the centre of Amsterdam, which was squatted in 1968 note 82 . Since the early days music and debate from ...
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description, collective history
Formative influence on new generations
A place like Paradiso is a continually formative influence on people. I personally learned a tremendous amount, but also these events ...
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description, methodology, collective history
To refelect upon and express identity
Jan Dietvorst, an independent visual artist and programmer of special lectures and modern classical concerts in Paradiso, who was also ...
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description, argument
Formal and informal encounters
It is like organizing a party. The infrastructure has to be there, one can put a lot of care into extra ingredients like food, an ...
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description, methodology, collective history
Designing time
When creating a networked event, one is also designing time. Dramatic events change our sense of time. A minute of pain or a minute of a ...
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description, personal history, collective history, techno-biography
Several kinds of documentation
The source material for this case study consists of several kinds of publications. There are the proceedings, published by Paradiso and ...
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We hit the national TV news and had extensive articles published in national newspapers and magazines concerning the GHP, its guests and ...