It is well known in the medical practice that an important part of the strategy required to achieve any good result always includes listening to what a patient has to say regarding its symptoms. Planning any medical treatment, hence, begins with listening to a story of the subject (the symptoms identified by the patient) together with the story of the body (chemical / physical analysis). Considering now a broken object as a subject of treatment, would listening to its story provide an aid to its repair? We here claim that the answer to this question is affirmative and that such process might work also for unanimated objects, granted that the right stories are coded, preserved and told. Two suggestive questions hence emerge: how can objects tell their stories? And, continuing, what should an object say in order to guide its repair process?

Do Humans Dream of Talking Objects? Repairing as Listening to Unanimated Object Stories

MARFIA, GUSTAVO;MATTEUCCI, GIOVANNI;ROCCETTI, MARCO
2013

Abstract

It is well known in the medical practice that an important part of the strategy required to achieve any good result always includes listening to what a patient has to say regarding its symptoms. Planning any medical treatment, hence, begins with listening to a story of the subject (the symptoms identified by the patient) together with the story of the body (chemical / physical analysis). Considering now a broken object as a subject of treatment, would listening to its story provide an aid to its repair? We here claim that the answer to this question is affirmative and that such process might work also for unanimated objects, granted that the right stories are coded, preserved and told. Two suggestive questions hence emerge: how can objects tell their stories? And, continuing, what should an object say in order to guide its repair process?
2013
ACM CHI 2013 Satellite Workshop
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G. Marfia; G. Matteucci; M. Roccetti
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