Designing for Reflection: Utilizing slow technology to create tangible interactive designs for reducing technostress

Technostress is an emerging and significant psychological phenomenon associated with the use of technology. It impacts human behavior and distracts from living a healthy and meaningful life. As humans increasingly encounter computational technology on a daily basis, there is a need to understand and manage the anxieties and tensions that can result from these interactions. Using the lens of critical design, this thesis explores this concept of technology induced stress and promotes reflection, personal growth and awareness through three different design research methods. It further builds on the topic of slow technology which unfolds in the form of a design fiction, design probe and design artifacts, challenging our understanding of technostress while embracing constructive discussions and creative designs to speculate the human-technology relationship.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Fine Arts

Level thesis:degree_level

masters

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Creative Technologies

Department dc:contributor.department

Art and Art History

Grantor dc:publisher

Virginia Tech

Year dc:date.issued

2019

Author dc:creator

• Behzad Behbahani, Armaghan

Chair dc:contributor.committeechair

• Santos Lages, Wallace

Committee members dc:contributor.committeemember

• Tucker, Thomas J.
• Kelliher, Aisling

• Tangible Interaction design
• Slow technology
• Technostress
• Reflection

Statement dc:rights

• In Copyright

Licence dc:rights.uri

• http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/

Dc Identifier Other

vt_gsexam:22097

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/95511