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Extremely Small and Incredibly Everywhere

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Ambient Intelligence technologies call for new space concepts building on an understanding of how humans interrelate with objects. This paper argues for an environmental perspective on the analysis of persuasive technologies. It assumes that dualistic thinking, which recurs to categories such as society/technology or subject/object, has to be questioned. This paper resumes the approach of the PhD project ‘Thinking Space’ on the spatial dimensions of intelligent technologies. Space concepts from physics, sociology and literature theory form the basis for an empirically informed philosophical approach.

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  1. Department of Spatial Development, Infrastructure & Environmental Planning, Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria

    Louise Beltzung Horvath

  2. Department of Comparative Literature & Department of Philosophy, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

    Julia Grillmayr

  3. Department of Physics & Department of Philosophy, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

    Tanja Traxler

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  1. for Smart Technology and Smart Living, Stichting Smart Homes, Smart Homes Research Centre, Eindhoven, 5605, Netherlands

    Ad van Berlo

  2. , The Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller Institute, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, Odense M, 5230, Denmark

    Kasper Hallenborg

  3. , Departamento de Informática, Universidad de Salamanca, Plaza de la Merced S/N, Salamanca, 37008, Spain

    Juan M. Corchado Rodríguez

  4. Departamento de Informática, y Automática, Universidad de Salamanca, Plaza de la Merced S/N, Salamanca, 37008, Spain

    Dante I. Tapia

  5. , Departamento de Informática, Universidade do Minho, Campus de Gualtar, Braga, 4710-057, Portugal

    Paulo Novais

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Horvath, L.B., Grillmayr, J., Traxler, T. (2013). Extremely Small and Incredibly Everywhere. In: van Berlo, A., Hallenborg, K., Rodríguez, J., Tapia, D., Novais, P. (eds) Ambient Intelligence - Software and Applications. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 219. Springer, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-00566-9_21

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