ABSTRACT
How human existence is being transformed by technology is a key topic in the philosophy of technology. Especially in recent empirically oriented philosophy of technology and the related interdisciplinary field of Science and Technology Studies this has resulted in concepts that promise to be of interest not only for historical and anthropological analysis, but for application in design as well. Latour’s analysis of delegation of action from humans to technologies (Latour 1992), for example, compares to work done at the interface of psychology and design on affordances (Norman 1988), persuasive technology (Fogg 2003), and nudges (Thaler and Sunstein 2008). To make application in design, for user research and usability engineering, feasible there is a need for a framework that collects different concepts and approaches to user influencing effects of technology. The question is what kind of framework would be most convenient for this.
