Yan Wu
The human-technology relationship has been considered since people started using machines. Designers never stop trying to find ways to naturally merge technologies into everyday life and to make them acceptable in a non-conspicuous way. But as technology becomes more prevalent, people’s lives are becoming increasingly shaped by technology. Technologies are ubiquitous in people’s lives and they are changing humanity by whatever they supply people. People are becoming more adept at using new technologies, yet older generations are adapting more slowly. Correspondingly, new generations in the future may adapt to this hidden technology naturally.
Everyday life is intimately intertwined with all kinds of electronic products. They are sitting in the corners of the home and people’s everyday experience routinely runs around these products. The interaction process can be cold and feelingless. What ever we sense in the world, the familiarity of surrounding technological products has reduced the way we respond to it as merely setting up controls. We cannot even sense the existence of the technology. People tend to take what they are using for granted. But meanwhile, people’s behavior also unconsciously changes along with the technologies they are getting used to.
I intend to develop the household technological products that may arouse people’s renotice to these familiar objects and give them a reflective experience regarding to the existence of technology. In order to establish a different relationship between the users and the technological products, the product should be able to communicate something over and above its function other than just being a tool. Beyond pleasure, the household technological products should make people think.
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