Per Linde
Per Linde is a post doc & senior lecturer in Interaction design at the Malmö University. Research topics are co-design, internet of things, smart cities and civic agency in relation to design.
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Tell us a little about your research area?
- The subject of interaction design is a young academic discipline with only forty years behind it. It is about man's relationship to technology, what role technology plays in people's lives and its impact on society - how it enriches or hinders.
My research is about participatory design - how the person who will use a certain technology can participate in developing it, not just be passive consumers.
What is most interesting in your field of research right now?
- Right now very strong digitization processes are taking place in society - here it is important not only to develop the technological perspective, it is important to have a critical eye. An interesting example is Explainable AI, which deals with decisions made with automatic decision-making processes, and on what grounds they are made.
You are not "just" a researcher, you are also a poet, how do you see the possibilities of AI chatbots learning to write really good poetry?
- It obviously depends on what you count as good poetry. But if you think of poetry as something that has such an effect on a reader/listener that it creates a poetic experience, then it is a relationship that does not necessarily privilege a human writer. So yes, I think that an AI can create what we call good poetry from that perspective. But then it is also a question of how the creative process works. There I think that the, shall we call it the human, creation works in a special way that today's AI cannot replicate, not right now anyway.