Taken together, the essays show how critical theory and interaction design can inform each other, and how interaction design, drawing on critical theory, might contribute to our deepest needs for connection, competency, self-esteem, and wellbeing.
'A theory of the interface is a theory of culture.' When interaction design becomes the liberal art of the age, the origins of interface become worth sounding.
Benefits of such an engagement can include informing a particular design process, critiquing and innovating on design processes and methods more generally, developing original theory beneficial to interaction design, and exposing more robustly the long-term and even unintended consequences of designs.
We explore realms as varied as synthetic biology, surreal digital theory, film and animation, interaction design, and mixed and augmented reality to inform architectural, landscape and urban design.
Classic texts by thinkers from Althusser to Žižek alongside essays by leaders in interaction design and HCI show the relevance of critical theory to interaction design.
His research interests mainly include computational fluid dynamics of hydraulic machines, transient flow phenomena in pumping system, design theory of turbomachines and fluid structure interaction.
In this paper, I provide a short introduction to embodied cognition and embodied child computer interaction, discuss several roles that theories can play in child computer interaction research, and identify three important groups of theories that have practical application in interaction design.
The papers in LNCS 9169 are organized in topical sections on HCI theory and practice; HCI design and evaluation methods and tools; interaction design; emotions in HCI.
They illustrate their argument by presenting classic texts by thinkers in critical theory from Althusser to Žižek alongside essays in which leaders in interaction design and HCI describe the influence of the text on their work.
Cognition in Interaction Design.
Problems from design theory.
