The aesthetic turn: unravelling recent aesthetic approaches to human-computer interactionстатья из журнала
Аннотация: Abstract With the rapid penetration of digital interfaces into all aspects of everyday life, the need for understanding the aesthetic aspects of interaction between humans and computers has come into focus. Various positions suggest that aesthetics offers IT design and research an enhanced analytical foundation going beyond the traditional use-oriented principles of HCI and usability. However, this new body ofliterature employs different notions of aesthetics, resultingin a blurred picture. This article reviews the contributions of aesthetics to IT design and research, which we refer to as the aesthetic turn. Based on a thorough literature review, we propose a division of the field into four overall approaches: the cultural, the functionalistic, the experience-based and the techno-futuristic. Finally we discuss the prospects and pitfalls of approaching research and design of digital interfaces from aesthetic stances. Keywords: aestheticsHCLinteractioninterfaceusability Acknowledgement We thank two anonymous reviewers for insightful and useful comments to the paper. We also acknowledge the financial support from the MODINET project (Media and Democracy in the Network Society) funded by the Danish Research Councils. Notes 1We use the terms 'Human-Computer Interaction' ('HCI') to denote the academic discipline and the term 'human-computer interaction' to denote the general interaction between humans and computers. 2 http://www.visualthesaurus.com, retrieved on July 12, 2005. 3 http://www.dunneandraby.co.uk, retrieved on July 12, 2005. 4 http://dpt.unsworn.org, retrieved on July 12, 2005. 5The book Digital ground by Malcolm McCullough Citation(2004) is a central text within this area and consequently we adopted his term techno-futurist to denote this approach.
Год издания: 2005
Авторы: Lars Erik Udsen, Anker Helms Jørgensen
Издательство: Taylor & Francis
Источник: Digital Creativity
Ключевые слова: Innovative Human-Technology Interaction, Interactive and Immersive Displays, Usability and User Interface Design
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Том: 16
Выпуск: 4
Страницы: 205–216