Satinder Gill

This chapter applies ideas from Chap. 2 about knowledge and practice, by investigating expertise and knowledge as embodied human expertise. It discusses various case studies and corporeality in human sense-making. It investigates how knowledge is embodied in how we perform when we communicate, exchange ideas, present information to each other, train and learn, and become skilled. How we relate with others is a skilled performance.

The discussion in this chapter continues an investigation of tacit knowing as a personal act of knowing by considering: I can only see how you see if we share the experience in the same physical space. In doing so, it takes the discussion on mediated expertise further by considering mediation as an embodied process involving a collective act. This is a personal act of knowing where the body mediates experience of knowing how, knowing that, and knowing when simultaneously.

This chapter brings the discussion from the previous four chapters together and develops it further. Firstly, it summarises what has been learned about the conception of an interacting and mediating interface, irrespective of specific contexts and technologies. The chapter ties together theory and practice across the various contexts to identify the foundational elements of a personal act of knowing within human relations. It looks to the future at what we need to consider as the foundations for human-technology relations for developing the relational interface, extending this discussion with fundamental philosophical and artistic questions being raised by the arts/performance arts about the relational in performance and human connectivity. A theoretical introduction is followed by a discussion of eight projects of artistic and design research, in which a new scientific paradigm is explored. The result is the formulation of the concept of 'tacit engagement'.

This book explores how digital technology is altering the relationships between people and how the very nature of interface itself needs to be reconsidered to reflect this – how
we can make sense of each other, handle ambiguities, negotiate differences, empathise and collectively make skilled judgments in our modern society. The author presents new directions for research at the relational-transactional intersection of contrasting disciplines of arts, science and technology,and in so doing, presents philosophical and artistic questions for future research on human connectivity in our digital age.

▶ Introduces the relational interface, which questions the historical idea of the interface as a conduit of the transactional and addresses an aesthetic and ethical balance
▶ Formulates tacit engagement as an emerging concept for the study of human relations
▶ Proposes a fundamental framework of mediation for expertise and decision making in complex human systems
▶ Critiques the concept of data and what makes for the success of knowledge transfer

Cognition, Communication and Interaction is an edited collection of articles that examine the theoretical and methodological
research issues that underlie the design and use of interactive technology. Present interactive designs are addressing the multi-modality of human interaction and the multi-sensory dimension of how we engage with each other. This book aims to provide
a trans-disciplinary research framework and methodology for interaction design. The analysis directs attention to three human capacities that our engagement with interactive technology has made salient and open to constant redefinition. These capacities are human cognition, communication and interaction.
In this book examination of these capacities is embedded in understanding the following foundations for design: concepts of “communication and interaction” and their application (Part 1); conceptions of “knowledge and cognition” (Part 2); the role of
aesthetics and ethics in design (Part 3).