How The Arts Can Help Tangible Interaction Design: A Critical Re-Orientation
Journal Title: Informatics - Year 2017, Vol 4, Issue 3
Abstract
There is a long history of creative encounters between tangible interface design and the Arts. However, in comparison with media art, tangible interaction seems to be quite anchored into many of the traditional methodologies imported from human–computer interaction (HCI). How can the Arts help tangible interaction design? Building on Søren Pold’s Interface Aesthetics, a re-orientation of the role of the artist towards a critical examination of our research medium—tangible interaction—is proposed. In this essay, the benefits of incorporating artistic research and its methodologies into our field are described. With these methodologies it is possible to better assess experiential aspects of interaction—a relevant attribute which traditional HCI approaches cannot afford. In order to inform our community, three examples of critical artworks are comparatively studied and discussed.
Authors and Affiliations
Enrique Tomás
Keywords
Related Articles
- EP ID EP44086
- DOI https://doi.org/10.3390/informatics4030031
- Views 258
- Downloads 0
Conceptualization and Non-Relational Implementation of Ontological and Epistemic Vagueness of Information in Digital Humanities
Research in the digital humanities often involves vague information, either because our objects of study lack clearly defined boundaries, or because our knowledge about them is incomplete or hypothetical, which is especi...
Developing and Improving Student Non-Technical Skills in IT Education: A Literature Review and Model
The purpose of this paper is to identify portions of the literature in the areas of Information Technology (IT) management, skills development, and curriculum development that support the design of a holistic conceptua...
Convolutional Neural Networks for Human Activity Recognition Using Body-Worn Sensors
Human activity recognition (HAR) is a classification task for recognizing human movements. Methods of HAR are of great interest as they have become tools for measuring occurrences and durations of human actions, which...
ETL Best Practices for Data Quality Checks in RIS Databases
The topic of data integration from external data sources or independent IT-systems has received increasing attention recently in IT departments as well as at management level, in particular concerning data integration...
Storing the Wisdom: Chemical Concepts and Chemoinformatics
The purpose of the paper is to examine the nature of chemical concepts, and the ways in which they are applied in chemoinformatics systems. An account of concepts in philosophy and in the information sciences leads to...