Digitale Lehre
Teaching will take place via Zoom. A link will be provided on the Moodle platform.
Lehrinhalte
The seminar will discuss historical and systematic text on how human-machine interfaces developed and became established in the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries.
Literatur
The literature will be posted on Moodle.
Official Course Description
Interfaces are versatile. On the one hand, they can be input and output systems in all variations (ATMs, screens, etc.). Understood in this way, they form a network of surfaces that should at best be intuitive and user-friendly for the user. On the other hand, they are also passageways that grant or deny access through control and power. If our actions presuppose the understanding of others and the ambiguous "understanding" is a parameter of humanistic access, then interfaces are generally and provocatively speaking there to enable a communicative interaction, an understanding (in the information-technical sense) and an action of two systems foreign to each other in the first place. The interface can be the mentioned control unit between man and machine.
As an interface between man and machine, the interface not only allows information to pass through, but also transmits it, which transforms the signals. The interface itself is therefore not a passive passage/surface, but productive in the etymological sense as a 'guide'. For successful productivity, however, the best possible design of the interface must be strived for. In the seminar it will be worked out historically and systematically to what extent the interface is not simply an object, but an effect. How do man and machine merge in the interface? How do they separate? How do "machines" become user-friendly and humans themselves become technical in the operation of the interface? Does the interface deal as a neutral mediator or is it itself an agent that creates meaning and thus generates the condition of the possibility of communication between two different system components?
Online-Angebote
moodle
Teaching will take place via Zoom. A link will be provided on the Moodle platform.
Lehrinhalte
The seminar will discuss historical and systematic text on how human-machine interfaces developed and became established in the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries.
Literatur
The literature will be posted on Moodle.
Official Course Description
Interfaces are versatile. On the one hand, they can be input and output systems in all variations (ATMs, screens, etc.). Understood in this way, they form a network of surfaces that should at best be intuitive and user-friendly for the user. On the other hand, they are also passageways that grant or deny access through control and power. If our actions presuppose the understanding of others and the ambiguous "understanding" is a parameter of humanistic access, then interfaces are generally and provocatively speaking there to enable a communicative interaction, an understanding (in the information-technical sense) and an action of two systems foreign to each other in the first place. The interface can be the mentioned control unit between man and machine.
As an interface between man and machine, the interface not only allows information to pass through, but also transmits it, which transforms the signals. The interface itself is therefore not a passive passage/surface, but productive in the etymological sense as a 'guide'. For successful productivity, however, the best possible design of the interface must be strived for. In the seminar it will be worked out historically and systematically to what extent the interface is not simply an object, but an effect. How do man and machine merge in the interface? How do they separate? How do "machines" become user-friendly and humans themselves become technical in the operation of the interface? Does the interface deal as a neutral mediator or is it itself an agent that creates meaning and thus generates the condition of the possibility of communication between two different system components?
Online-Angebote
moodle
- Lehrende: Kevin Liggieri
Semester: ST 2021