week 7. slow tech & mindful interaction

1. Students propose concepts of project 1.

Design Frictions for Mindful Interactions

"Microboundaries

A microboundary is an intervention that provides a

small obstacle prior to an interaction that prevents us

rushing from one context to another. It does this by

creating a brief moment in which we might reflect on

what we're doing. This small barrier to interaction can

be implemented via a short time cost and prompts a

switch from System1 behaviour to that of System2.

Microboundaries slow us down before acting."

 designed friction to provide "micorboundary" for system 1 changing to system 2
 System 1 v.s. system 2 thinking by Daniel Kahneman

The aesthetic of friction (Pleasurable Troublemakers)

Designing Mindful Interaction:The Category of Performative Object by Kristina Niedderer

Questions:
What are the possible experiential qualities that are elicited by slow technology? anticipation, mindfulness, reflection, microboundaries?




References:

Increasing Accuracy by Decreasing Presentation Quality in Transcription Tasks

Designing with Friction: Inverting Notions of Seamless Technology

Gardening Frictions in Creative AI: Emerging Art Practices and Their Design Implications

Design for friction. A literature review on “friction” as a method for reflection in design interventions

“diegetic frictions” and “extra-diegetic frictions”

"“diegetic” refers all situations, events and char-acters that act inside a narration, whereas “extra-diegetic” refers to all narrative devices

that act outside of the narrative world (Neumeyer, 2009)"

Figure 4. Slow Tech -> friction

Intention Is All You Need

"It is telling that the archetypical dimension in the Cognitive Dimensions of Notations (Green, 1989) is viscosity, a metaphor rooted in materials and resistances, aiming to bridge them with

the seemingly immaterial and disembodied world of notations."

"There have been proposals to design GenAI systems that introduce productive resistances as catalysts for the development of intention. Rather than an assistant, AI can act as a critic or provocateur (Sarkar, 2024;

Sarkar et al., 2024). AI can be antagonistic (Cai et al., 2024). AI can cause cognitive glitches (Hollanek,

2019). AI can act as cognitive forcing functions (Buçinca et al., 2021). These proposals are counter to

traditional narratives of system support, system disappearance, and system non-interference. They can

be seen as successors to previous counternarratives raised by researchers such as critiques of the doctrines

of simplicity and gradualism (Sarkar, 2023c), critiques of seamlessness (Chalmers & MacColl,

2003), critiques of reversible interactions (Rossmy et al., 2023), the case for design frictions and microboundaries

(Cox et al., 2016), reframing of ambiguity as design resource (Gaver et al., 2003), and

calls for attention checks in AI use (Gould et al., 2024).10"

"How can we build GenAI tools with inherent, productive resistances that are part of working with the

tool, not an additional thing that users need to “pay” attention to?"

Design Frictions on Social Media: Balancing Reduced Mindless Scrolling and User Satisfaction

A Special Interest Group on Designed and Engineered Friction in Interaction