Curious Rituals: Gestural Interaction in the Digital Everyday preteen to divert water across deserts

to divert water across deserts in Turkmenistan to supply water to the peasants

in which the footnotes are persevered along with the Bible references

Often evoking the desolate imagery characteristic of the American Midwest and Great Plains

Some of the poems contained in this volume date back to the 1980s

they answered questions posed by many people concerning themselves and the human race

Curious Rituals: Gestural Interaction in the Digital Everyday preteen to divert water across desertsThe curious habits described in this book can be seen as ingredients with which technological objects are domesticated by people, integrated into their own daily routines. Fixing strategies, nervous tics, device juggling or courtesy postures, to name just a few, are not only peculiar interaction habits, they reveal how people normalize so called futuristic technologies or what seemed magical and complex at first. They highlight the ingenuity users