Putting Phronesis to Work in Digital Innovation

Hylving, Lena,1974-RISE,Viktoria,Viktoria Swedish ICT, Gothenburg, Sweden (författare)

This paper uses the Aristotelian concept of phronesis (practical wisdom) as a sensitizing device to explore digital materiality in relation to user experience. We studied a digital innovation called Prudence, and observed that it possesses material properties including sensitivity to particulars, interactive ability, open-mindedness, and future orientation, making it context-aware. These properties quintessentially enabled the solution to be 'phronetic', and attune to its user's flow of activities and routines, to deliver 'good' user experiences. The study provides an opportunity for extending and strengthening current and emergent theories on digital materiality by incorporating phronesis as a vital ingredient to understand experiential computing. It also highlights the importance of embracing value-rationality to attain the kind of user delight that goes beyond what can be pre-defined in a specification. Overall, the paper contributes to show the fruitfulness of appropriating the notion of phronesis into the field of digital innovation.

Koutsikouri, Dina,1970Gothenburg University,Göteborgs universitet,Institutionen för tillämpad informationsteknologi (GU),Department of Applied Information Technology (GU),Swedish Center for Digital Innovation, Department of Applied IT, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden(Swepub:gu)xkoudi (författare)
RISEViktoria (creator_code:org_t)

Ingår i:2016 49th Hawaii International Conference on System SciencesNew York : IEEE9780769556703

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