Artefacts offer opportunities for action,'affordances', that can be described on various levels,
from manipulations ('pushing a button') to social activities ('dialling a friend'). However …

Artefacts can influence our actions in several ways. They can be instruments, enabling and
facilitating actions, where their presence affects the number and quality of the options for …

Oil is one of the drivers of Western industrial societies. Our pattern and (increasing) quantity
of oil consumption, however, is becoming more and more problematic for a number of …

The human enhancement debate typically centres on moral issues regarding changes in
human nature, not on the means for these changes. We argue that one cannot grasp what is …

The problem of the time of a killing is often cited as providing grounds for rejecting the action
identification thesis favoured by Anscombe and Davidson. In this paper I make three claims …

Stakeholder involvement in design is desirable from both a practical and an ethical point of
view. It is difficult to do well, however, and some problems recur again and again, both of a …

We argue that the use-plan analysis of artefact use and design can be combined with the
Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT), a well-tested model for …

Function-based design approaches have been criticized for being too narrow to properly
guide design. Specifically, they are said to be unable to cope with nonfunctional …