Design in the technicity of human life: interfaces that shape the human being

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https://doi.org/10.29147/datjournal.v9i2.830

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Human-technology interaction, Reality, World, Social impact

Abstract

The interaction between people and the world is mediated by technological devices. It is known that, in this context, the use of technical resources (i.e. the internet) has driven social transformations in the way humans communicate, both imposing new language patterns and changes in socialisation. This article aims to visualise how design can reflect on its implications in the current transformation of human experience through technology. To carry out this examination, an abstract-visual schematisation was drawn up using a narrative bibliographical approach, which is classified as basic, exploratory and qualitative research. The ways in which technological mediation allows design to think about its ontological and epistemological purposes were examined, reflecting the complexity of its theoretical and practical application in the projection of objects, things and artefacts, as well as in the production of meaning, significance, representation and the very question of human experience. Finally, an outline is presented of how the designer fundamentally influences the process of contemporary change in human action, which emphasises the relevance of an expanded approach to the impacts of the activity.

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Author Biographies

Cássio Henrique Bauer

Master's student in Design at the Postgraduate Program in Design (PPGDesign), Santa Catarina State University (UDESC), in the area of Human Factors in Design, focusing on the Interfaces and Cognitive Interactions line of research. He graduated in Information Science in 2022 from the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC). Currently, as a student-researcher, I am interested in acting, researching and documenting investigations in the areas of Information, Communication, Media and Technology, through inter-transdisciplinary studies with a focus on carrying out theoretical research. I am also inclined to explore themes from the field of Philosophy, which includes: Philosophy of Technology, Post-Phenomenology, Phenomenology and Phenomenology of Technology. Other topics of interest include Semiotics, Cyberspace and Scientific Method. My research assumptions are based on the ideas of authors such as Martin Heidegger, Albert Borgmann, Don Ihde, Michel Foucault, Charles S. Peirce, Jean Baudrillard, Umberto Eco, Bruno Latour, Marshall McLuhan, Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, Paul Ricoeur, Gilbert Simondon, Bruno Munari, Lev Manovich, Vilém Flusser and Lucia Santaella. Specifically, my research focuses on the humanization of technology and its technical aspects, as well as philosophical studies of information, technology, and design.

Flávio Anthero Nunes Vianna dos Santos

He has a degree in Industrial Design - Product Design and Graphic Design from ESDI, Escola Superior de Desenho Industrial da Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (1992), a master's degree in Production Engineering from Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (1998) and a doctorate in Production Engineering from Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (2005). He is currently a member of the Editorial Board of Revista Hall Ceart (UDESC) and Revista Human Factors in Design (PPGDESIGN/UDESC), a lecturer and researcher at UDESC - Santa Catarina State University, as well as an ad hoc evaluator for INEP/BASis, the CEE/SC State Education Council and an ad hoc consultant for CNPq. Furthermore, he has experience in Industrial Design: teaching and research in design, design management, project methodology and human factors.

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Bauer, C. H., & Santos, F. A. N. V. dos. (2024). Design in the technicity of human life: interfaces that shape the human being. DAT Journal, 9(2), 279–296. https://doi.org/10.29147/datjournal.v9i2.830

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