The Craft of Memory Podcast

How Artifacts Afford: Reflections on Memory Training Software Design w/ Jenny L. Davis

Dec 31, 2022

39:37

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What Attracted You to Sociology and Technology?

03:15

How Artifacts Afford

02:30

Why Do You Slow Down When Thinking About Affordance?

01:46

Introduction

2min

What Attracted You to Sociology and Technology?

3min

Architecture and AI - What Influenced You There?

2min

How Artifacts Afford, the Power and Politics of Everyday Things

2min

What Is Affordance?

3min

Why Do You Slow Down When Thinking About Affordance?

2min

Understanding the Degrees of Affordance

3min

The Role of Humans in Technology

4min

Are We Responsible for Self-Driving Cars?

2min

10.

Bringing in Affected Communities as Central Members of the Design Team

2min

11.

The Power and Politics of Everyday Things

2min

12.

The Power of Affordance and Memory Palace Design

2min

13.

Memory Training Software

6min

14.

The Need for Speed Is Not Necessary, Right?

4min

15.

How Artifacts Afford

2min

In this episode, I speak with Jenny L. Davis, a sociologist at the Australian National University and author of How Artifacts Afford: The Power and Politics of Everyday Things. We discuss the concept of affordance, its history, relationship to design, and how it may be considered in the design of memory training software.

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