Malcolm McCullough
Malcolm McCullough is a professor of architecture and urban planning. He has taught at the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Michigan, Carnegie Mellon University, and Harvard Graduate School of Design.
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On the Point Where Architecture and Interaction Design Meet
Architecture • Interaction Design • Pervasive Computing • Seams
Digital Ground • 2004
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On the Limits of Technological Futures
Pervasive Computing • Place • Technology • Situatedness
Be wary of visions of the future that overlook the value of context and require people to give up aspects of their humanity to better configure with the technology or product.
Digital Ground • 2004
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On Digital Ground
Place
The idea of “digital ground” is a plea for interaction designers to create more opportunities to feel a sense of place. This entails fostering existing patterns of community and promoting agency through embodied participation.
Digital Ground • 2004
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On Places as Accumulators of Value
Place
We can understand a sense of place as a starting point for a new way of measuring the value of our experiences and interactions; a more expansive measure than solely economic models of value that often leave us bereft of the feeling of being human.
Digital Ground • 2004
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On a Typology of Situated Interaction
Interaction Design • Pattern
Borrowing from ideas on architectural type, we might develop a typology of situated interaction. This would be a set of patterns of human interaction each characterized by the protocols, etiquettes, and activities accumulated in a place.
Digital Ground • 2004