Extremely Small and Incredibly Everywhere

Abstract

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. © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2013.