Digital temporality. The responsibility of Interaction Design in digital alienation = Temporalità digitale. La responsabilità dell’Interaction Design nell’alienazione digitale

The temporality of digital ecosystems has redefined the way we perceive and organise time, favouring efficiency and productivity. Designed for constant accessibility, digital technologies disrupt natural human rhythms, creating an uninhabitable sense of time shaped by ‘temporal techno-performances’, frenzied gestures and accelerated rhythms that significantly affect psychological well-being. This disruption has led to the emergence of ‘digital well-being’ as a critical aspect of mental health. Interaction Design, as an interpreter of the relationship between humans and digital, has a responsibility to address these dynamics, rethinking design as an ethical and time-conscious practice. This paper proposes a critical design and social sciences literature review to assess how Interaction Design practices influence or can mitigate temporal alienation.