#dourish

The notion of the promise of play... suggests that we should consider games as sites of cultural production and imagination, evolving at the intersection of local and transnational processes and discourses.

A colleague recently tweeted a link to a Science Daily article entitled, "How do people respond to being touched by a robotic nurse?"

I'm inclined to cite Dourish as a kind of gentle critique to the hopes and anticipation associated with robotic medical care:

"...a disembodied brain could not experience the world in the same ways that we do, because our experience of the world is intimately tied to the ways in which we act in it. Physically, our experiences cannot be separated from the reality of our bodily presence in the world; and socially, too, the same relationship holds because our nature as social beings is based on the ways in which we act and interact, in real time, all the time.

A conversation between two people is shaped in response to the moment rather than abstractly planned..."