Interface Critique- Beyond UX - FLORIAN HADLER, ALICE SOINÉ; DANIEL IRRGANG

Notes

The interface as an "historical artifact", a "space of power"

"An interface in a merely techno-logical perspective is a site where incoherent modes of communication are rendered coherent1and where signals are translated and combined,2a simple gateway between databases, code modules and other forms of machine based communication. An interface is also a site where techno-logical and human preconditions meet in structured moments of sense-making and interaction. Furthermore, an interface is a form of relation and at the same time a form of differentiation and distinction,4of transition and mediation5and of inclusion and exclusion. An inter-face therefore is not just a surface or a passive gateway or threshold, not only a mode or a site of interaction or communication, but a deeply histo-rical artifact: a structured set of codes, complex processes and protocols, engineered, developed and designed, a space of power where social, political, economic, aesthetic, philosophical and technological registrations are inscribed." p.2

The interface as human -machine boudary

"An interface constitutes the boudaries between human and machine, holding them apart by linking them together, drawing thin and preoffice counter in the 1930s from Susanne Jany in this volume on Hadler, Irrgang, „Instant Sensemaking, Immersion and Invisibility,“ See the article from Lasse Scherffig on cybernetic perspectives on the interface in this volume on; An idea that is obviously employed by actor-network-theory, and also discussed in the text by Max Bense on the automobile, in this volume on p. 112.liminary lines between them. The interface is validated by the user9–both become an ensemble, con-stantly renegotiating the intersec-tions between human, machine and environment. " P.3