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Paper: 9962
| Paper title: | Do Intelligent Objects Need Programmed Users? |
| Authors: | Pereyra, N., Azubel, R., Torroja, A., López Coronel, J.P. and Muñoz, P. |
| Summary: | Intelligent objects for daily use offer greater advantages than electromechanical products. However, they need a user whose life is more methodical, programmed and predictable. As de number of services offered in such products increase, their restrictions in their flexibility of use arise. Finally, users adapt themselves to habits that these objects suggest (for better) or prescribe (for worse). However, a paradox exists. What is controversial for a standard user: the increasing passivity justified in the eternal pursuit of comfort, for a disabled person means achieving independence and autonomy. In order to accomplish the revolutionary equity that computer science claims, the possibility of being excluded for economic reasons should not exist. If not, it will increase the fracture between coexistent realities in the same territory. For these reasons, assuming the risk of being considered naive and idealist, we believe that in order to build a better future it is necessary to promote policies that guarantee the access to new technologies for people with low economic means. Together with the consciousness users gain -related to product selection-, it would break the premature discouragement that the markets try to impose, resigning us to an unjustified idea of weakness and submission. |
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| Year of publication: | 1999 |
| Series: | CUMINCADes:SIGRADI |
| Download paper: | /pdfs/9962.content.pdf |
| Citation: | Pereyra, N., Azubel, R., Torroja, A., López Coronel, J.P. and Muñoz, P. (1999). Do Intelligent Objects Need Programmed Users?. III Congreso Iberoamericano de Grafico Digital [SIGRADI Conference Proceedings] Montevideo (Uruguay) September 29th - October 1st 1999, pp. 52-55, http://itc.scix.net/paper/9962 |
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