4th Space as Smart Information Ecology with Design Requirements of Sustainability, Ethics and Inclusion
Paper in proceeding, 2022

New social environments are emerging as spaces and places where work and life at home are no longer separate. Digital spaces and physical places have become intertwined: the 1st space is home, the 2nd is work, the 3rd is informal meeting places, while the 4th space represents different combinations of the previous ones. This paper describes the need for value-based designs of the 4th space through a transdisciplinary approach. We argue for a need to understand human interactions in physical and digital spaces from a user-centered perspective, meaning to understand user needs and preferences of digital content in physical and virtual spaces. Moreover, we point out the need to address identity, ethical, and legal requirements of these types of spaces. Finally, we address the need to connect emerging technologies such as AI, and design approaches such a gamification, with cognitive, structural, economic, social and technological challenges and opportunities of the 4th space.

design requirements

4th space

inclusion

AI

gamification

interaction design

sustainability

information ecology

ethics

smart cities

Author

Gordana Dodig Crnkovic

Mälardalens högskola

Chalmers, Computer Science and Engineering (Chalmers), Interaction Design and Software Engineering

Sara Ljungblad

University of Gothenburg

Mohammad Obaid

Chalmers, Computer Science and Engineering (Chalmers), Interaction Design and Software Engineering

Proceedings (MDPI)

2504-3900 (ISSN)

Vol. 81 1 124-127

The 2021 Summit of the International Society for the Study of Information
Tohoku (online), Japan,

Morphological Computing in Cognitive Systems (MORCOM@COGS)

Swedish Research Council (VR) (2015-05359), 2016-01-01 -- 2020-12-31.

Areas of Advance

Information and Communication Technology

Driving Forces

Sustainable development

Innovation and entrepreneurship

Subject Categories

Architecture

Interaction Technologies

Human Computer Interaction

DOI

10.3390/proceedings2022081124

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10/25/2023