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What Is It About Space That Is Important in Interaction? … Let’s Take the World from a Situated Point of View

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The spatial relationships between architectural form and computation are changing. They have been changing ever since the computer left a dedicated room in an office building leading to evolution, not only in the design of the office as a building type but also new forms of interaction with computing technology that are changing our ways of working and living within the built environment. In this chapter we study how this relationship has changed both the nature of ‘work’ and its locations. Building on this insight and understanding from the field of workplace studies we suggest a particular approach, analytic ethnography, to inform the design of environments for the new ways that computation, architecture and interaction intersect.

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Acknowledgments

The National Museum of Computing at Bletchley has kindly given permission for the photograph of the Harwell Dekatron, the world’s oldest working computer, to be re-produced in this publication. This paper revisits several themes and develops the argument from a paper at CHI 2014, One of a CHInd conference in Montreal.

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    Rachael Luck

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  1. Dept of Comp Sci & Digi Tech, University of Northumbria, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

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  3. Department of Informatics, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden

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  4. The Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London, London, United Kingdom

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Luck, R. (2016). What Is It About Space That Is Important in Interaction? … Let’s Take the World from a Situated Point of View. In: Dalton, N., Schnädelbach, H., Wiberg, M., Varoudis, T. (eds) Architecture and Interaction. Human–Computer Interaction Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-30028-3_3

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