The hitchhiker’s guide to ubicomp: using techniques from literary and critical theory to reframe scientific agendas
The hitchhiker’s guide to ubicomp: using techniques from literary and critical theory to reframe scientific agendas
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泛计算搭便车指南：使用文学和批判理论中的技术来重新构建科学议程
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10.1007/s00779-013-0679-6
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发表时间：
2014
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通讯作者：
M. Blythe
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文学批评将虚构作品置于历史、社会和心理背景中，以提供关于文本生产和消费方式的见解。批判理论提供了一系列的策略来分析文本说了什么，同样重要的是，它留下了什么没有说。对科学写作的文学分析还可以提供有关如何制定和解决研究议程的见解。本文提供了三个由马克韦瑟开创性的普适计算场景的阅读。从文学和批评理论的三种方法被证明在解构主义，精神分析和女性主义的阅读方案。解构主义的阅读表明，在方便和高效的无处不在的计算愿景的同时，还有一系列复杂的恐惧和焦虑，这些恐惧和焦虑是文本无法完全征服的。精神分析阅读考虑的是场景要求我们渴望什么，并确定了没有入侵的监视梦想。最后一个女权主义者阅读讨论了性别和公共与私人，办公室与家庭，家庭与工作生活之间正在崩溃的区别。没有一个阅读材料被认为是威瑟“真正”所说的最终真理。相反，它们阐明了一系列问题和关注点，这些问题和关注点可能会以不同的方式构建设计议程。然后，该方案被重新编写成两个pastiches，利用源材料与无处不在的计算非常不同的愿景。萨尔的情节首先是按照道格拉斯亚当斯的《银河系漫游指南》的风格改写的。在这个世界上，技术是破碎的，设计是穷人和用户是有缺陷的，容易犯错和脆弱的。第二个改写了菲利普K迪克的小说尤比克的风格的场景。这个场景突出了Weiser的场景和大多数设计场景中缺少的东西：钱。这三个阅读和两个拼贴强调了社会冲突和斗争，在ubicomp文学中讲述的故事中往往被省略或忽视。有人认为，文学形式的阅读和写作可以是有用的，在质疑和重构科学写作和设计议程。
Literary criticism places fictional work in historical, social and psychological contexts to offer insights about the way that texts are produced and consumed. Critical theory offers a range of strategies for analysing what a text says and just as importantly, what it leaves unsaid. Literary analyses of scientific writing can also produce insights about how research agendas are framed and addressed. This paper provides three readings of a seminal ubiquitous computing scenario by Marc Weiser. Three approaches from literary and critical theory are demonstrated in deconstructive, psychoanalytic and feminist readings of the scenario. The deconstructive reading suggests that alongside the vision of convenient and efficient ubiquitous computing is a complex set of fears and anxieties that the text cannot quite subdue. A psychoanalytic reading considers what the scenario is asking us to desire and identifies the dream of surveillance without intrusion. A final feminist reading discusses gender and collapsing distinctions between public and private, office and home, family and work life. None of the readings are suggested as the final truth of what Weiser was “really” saying. Rather they articulate a set of issues and concerns that might frame design agendas differently. The scenario is then re-written in two pastiches that draw on source material with very different visions of ubiquitous computing. The Sal scenario is first rewritten in the style of Douglas Adams’ Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. In this world, technology is broken, design is poor and users are flawed, fallible and vulnerable. The second rewrites the scenarios in the style of Philip K Dick’s novel Ubik. This scenario serves to highlight what is absent in Weiser’s scenario and indeed most design scenarios: money. The three readings and two pastiches underline the social conflict and struggle more often elided or ignored in the stories told in ubicomp literature. It is argued that literary forms of reading and writing can be useful in both questioning and reframing scientific writing and design agendas.
代表老年人：在设计场景中获得有意义的用户形象
影响因子：
2.4
作者：
Blythe M
通讯作者：
Blythe M