Affective Computing is a term used to describe the process of developing computing architectures that account for human concerns such as usability, touch, access,...

Ambient awareness is a way of describing the idea of being "ambiently aware" of another's actions, thoughts and experiences without having to be near them...

The term anomie refers to a "an environmental state where society fails to exercise adequate regulation or constraint over the goals and desires of its individual...

Architecture fiction is a way of exploring and testing alternative built forms and urban environments without the overhead of physically building and testing...

Asynchronous communication describes the act of communicating with another person using pauses and storing communication in external devices such as phones, text,...

When one puts an item into a physical bag, it gets heavier. When one puts an item into virtual space, the computer that holds it stays the same weight. Every time a...

A Bee Dance is a type of behavior performed by bees when locating pollen in distant fields. It is used to notify other hive members of the location of the honey...

The balance between intellectual and technical pursuits and the connection to one's physical body is in flux. For many, long periods of sitting and working wreck...

The celebrity is the ultimate form of cyborg. It exists on an Actor Network of technosocial connections attached to a system of production, reproduction and...

City as Software is the idea that a city is a malleable, writable system capable of being edited and changed by its citizens. Adam Greenfield wrote that seeing a...

The concept of a companion species was first brought to into use by cyborg scholar Donna Haraway. She used the term as an exploration into the historical emergence...

Feeling obligated to stay connected is a feeling that affect those with connections to others through mobile and web devices. When one can access information...