Abstract The article scrutinizes the Dutch healthcare market system to provide empirical grounding debates around extent which rationally constructed markets can develop as originally planned. Focusing on one specific pricing device, we document how perceived economic ‘rationalities’ embedded in its design are challenged by unforeseen and unanticipated ‘irrationalities’ of daily practices. We t...

In recent years, the emergence of a new trend in contemporary philosophy has been observed in the increasing usage of empirical research methods to conduct philosophical inquiries. Although philosophers primarily use secondary data from other disciplines or apply quantitative methods (experiments, surveys, etc.), the rise of qualitative methods (e.g., in-depth interviews, participant observatio...

This paper examines the importance of acknowledging gender and gender related categories for interactive design, especially for design engineering processes of Embodied Conversational Agents. It offers a complex understanding of the term gender including the intersectional character of gender, second thoughts on gender as a binary system and the performativity of gender. These different aspects...

The rise of social media has been accompanied by a rise in spaces devoted to various forms of sexual interaction. While online porn receives the most attention, it is hardly the only form of online sexual content. Examples include erotic uses of Twitter, Second Life, and the Google Maps API. What are the characteristics of technology-mediated intimacy, and how can interaction designers build bo...

The aim of this paper is to take first steps in direction of a scientifically oriented aesthetics of New Media Art, taking into account the transformation of musical aesthetics taking place at present induced by new digital methods in artistic sound and music computing. Starting from the observation of relevant current issues in music composition and performances such as gesture control in algo...