Interaction design entered the scene of design as computer scientists and engineers realized that technology is a design material rather than a neutral setof tools and machinery supporting life at work or at home. Since then, interaction designers have been actively involved in exploring new design concepts for anything from interactive websites to intelligent everyday spaces. But where does interaction design come from and what foundations are relevant today? In this book, a group of authors ranging from the founders of the field to currently influential shapers of education and research provide their interpretation of experiences and challenges, advocating a strong sensitivity to participation and the indigenous creativity of the modern social fabric. The book offers its readers a broad view on the origins and foundations of the field of interaction design and identifies throught-provoking challenges facing interactiondesign today Outstanding lineup of contributing authors Timely topic Connections back to the origins of modern design theory INDICE: Introduction: Bauing a Digital Haus of Words.- From Utopia 1980 toUtopia 2008.- HCI and Design: Uncomfortable bedfellows?.- Acting up! Against the Mainstream.- Tradition and Transcendence.- Designing with an Ethnographic State of Mind.- On Participation and Service Innovation.- The PhenomenologicalStance of the Designer.- Designing for Homo Ludens.- Gaming Literacy: Game Design as a Model for Literacy in the 21st Century.- Crafting Computers: MachineBeauty Meets User Aesthetics.- Distruptions.- (Dis)placed and (re)placed.- Designed Animism: Poetics of a New World.- Between Art and Design: On the Aesthetic Function, from the Bauhaus until Today.- A Science of the Possible?.- Personal Research Programs: How to 'Survive' in a Dynamic Research Field.- Work, Design, Computers, Artifacts.- (Re)Searching a Digital Bauhaus: Outline of a K3Psycho-Geography.
- ISBN: 978-1-84800-349-1
- Editorial: Springer
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 250
- Fecha Publicación: 01/11/2008
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés