Where the Action Is: The Foundations of Embodied Interaction - Softcover

Dourish, Paul

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0262541785 ISBN 13: 9780262541787

Verlag: MIT Press, 2004

Inhaltsangabe

Computer science as an engineering discipline has been spectacularly successful. Yet it is also a philosophical enterprise in the way it represents the world and creates and manipulates models of reality, people, and action. In this book, Paul Dourish addresses the philosophical bases of human-computer interaction. He looks at how what he calls "embodied interaction" - an approach to interacting with software systems that emphasizes skilled, engaged practice rather than disembodied rationality - reflects the phenomenological approaches of Martin Heidegger, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and other twentieth-century philosophers. The phenomenological tradition emphasizes the primacy of natural practice over abstract cognition in everyday activity. Dourish shows how this perspective can shed light on the foundational underpinnings of current research on embodied interaction.

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Paul Dourish is Professor of Informatics at the University of California, Irvine, with courtesy appointments in Computer Science and in Anthropology.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: MIT Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2004
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0262541785
• ISBN 13: 9780262541787
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 248
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