Séminaire transversal du laboratoire ICAR – coorganisé par l’IXXI – ouvert à toutes et tous

« Environnements techno-numériques pour les interactions et la prise de décision »

lundi 16 décembre 2024, de 13h30 à 15h

 Les intervenants

Sébasatien Lerique
(ENS de Lyon – IXXI)

Humane interactions and care: for a re-framing of technology and its design.

Our understanding of interactions, be they linguistic or technological, are quickly evolving. Both language and technology are now seen as an emergence of complex dynamics evolving over time. Language, instead of static grammatical rules, is understood as multi-scale interaction dynamics in a community. On the other side, technology now mediates a large part of such interactions, and its role in mutual understanding and care becomes a central question. Indeed, current technology often reduces or restricts humane interactions: laptops, phones, and most devices are designed for an individual, enabling interactions exclusively over the digital network. In a living-room analogy, all friends or collaborators have chairs in the same space, yet their shared table is the digital network instead of a common physical object. In this context, numerous issues have easily emerged. Addictive social media, for instance, has grown using technology designed for individuals first. While video-projectors, interactive digital boards, or even AI (e.g. GPT, LLaMa, etc.) are claimed as an answer for general interactions, a step back with broader framing, asking about technology as a tool, shows two overall challenges.

First, technology has lost diversity in its design and aims. Production, along with detailed design, have become world-wide centralised with a single goal: the next generation of technology should just be smaller with higher performance. Yet if our use of technology can change, its high performance might not be necessary, becoming a useless race. Re-opening the diversity of hardware architectures would in turn re-open diverse uses of the (software) tools produced. Similarly to when one can thoroughly design their living room, not just painting its walls, humane technical diversity could be supported given a gradually decentralised, locally adapted development. Second, instead of competing against live linguistic interactions, technology could become a community tool that helps mutual understanding, taking our existing complex interactions as they are. Together, such a re-framing may open different paths for our use of technology, re-developing humane technical architecture and production, and re-opening an old question about technology’s societal role.

 Arnaud Grignard
(IRD – IXXI)
Simulations participatives tangibles pour étudier les dynamiques spatio-temporelles dans la prise de décision urbaine et environnementale

en salle D2.104 (site Descartes)
et en visioconférence

https://cnrs.zoom.us/j/99449794957?pwd=94BKYbTxSc00sV9G6sdTdaRyhpnurS.1