Midterms submission uploaded

Abstract:
Nowadays, digital communication and information devices (DCIDs) are several and different, even if they have same components and functions. They allow us to interact with each other and to entertain ourselves, thus we recognize them as necessary.

According to that, the consequences of this state of the art tend to affect users’ dependency and devices’ obsolescence on several layers:
- physical: DCIDs answer to both functional and perceptive expectations, as they have to be easy to use, convenient and have a good look. However, they are not designed in order to be recycled and they are closed systems.
- contextual: users perceive DCIDs according to their abilities and to the context, during the whole life cycle of the device. Therefore, only professionals of the field can deal with them, but average users.
- emotional: users tend to invest them with value according to the relationship that they have build up with and around them. However, as DCIDs are easy to change because they are affordable, users keep for granted their obsolescence and they tend to look forward the last new model.

Design opportunity is in the "design for disassembling" in order to make functions perceptible and to provide an open system.