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Towards digital materiality: Imbrication of Services and the re-configuration of agencies

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George Ktistakis,

Demosthenes AkoumianakisAuthors Info & Claims

PCI '14: Proceedings of the 18th Panhellenic Conference on Informatics

Pages 1 - 6

https://doi.org/10.1145/2645791.2645847

Published: 02 October 2014 Publication History

Abstract

This paper rests on recent debates on digital materiality to advance and engineering proposal for building Web 2.0 systems as Imbrications of Services (IoS). The key concept points to designing digital assemblages of non-human actors (i.e. technologies) that function interdependently so as to facilitate collective human intentionality in the context of non-trivial virtual work. Through this lens, we examine a popular coordination artifact, namely the calendar, to showcase how it may be re-invented to exhibit a digital materiality that spans across Web 2.0 services such as Google Drive, YouTube, Flickr and Disqus. The results demonstrate the feasibility of building tightly intertwined systems that exploit the distribution of material agency across digital services and appropriate the benefits of virtualization (e.g., by alleviating the need to for managing local data stores).

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Towards digital materiality: Imbrication of Services and the re-configuration of agencies
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Collaborative and social computing
  2. Human computer interaction (HCI)
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
    1. Designing software
      1. Software implementation planning
        Software design techniques
    2. Software development process management

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PCI '14: Proceedings of the 18th Panhellenic Conference on Informatics

October 2014

355 pages

ISBN:9781450328975

DOI:10.1145/2645791

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Department of Digital Systems, University of Piraeus
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Hatzopoulos Michael
Department of Informatics and Telecommunications, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
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Department of Informatics, Athens University of Economics and Business
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Department of Informatics & Telematics, Harokopio University of Athens
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Department of Systems & Technology Management, School of Business, George Washington University
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Varvarigou Theodora
School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National Technical University of Athens
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Nikolaidou Mara
Department of Informatics & Telematics, Harokopio University of Athens

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https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.4018/ijec.2015040104
Akoumianakis DKaradimitriou NKotsalis DKtistakis GMichailidis CSyntychakis EVellis GVidakis NVlachakis GGeorge GStefanos GLazaros MPanagiotis TCleo S(2015)Designing digital artifacts as transient assemblies with different digital materialitiesProceedings of the 19th Panhellenic Conference on Informatics10.1145/2801948.2801968(388-393)Online publication date: 1-Oct-2015
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2801948.2801968
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https://doi.org/10.1109/SAI.2015.7237134
Stampe K(undefined)The Intertwining of Technologies and Work PracticesSSRN Electronic Journal10.2139/ssrn.2776281
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