Evan and Leonardo,
I think Jon is working on on a second edition... I guess he could, if he's lurking on this list, tell us when it will appear in an online bookshop near you . :-)
When it comes to defining the nature of interaction... I don't think you can find one definitive source. It depends on the theoretical stance you take. It differs if you look at it from a situated action perspective. Or an socio-cultural perspective. Or a phenomenological perspective. Or a cognitive perspective. Or a distributed cognitive perspective. Or a cognitive systems perspective. Or... Well you get the picture.
It doesn't get any easier when you also consider that these perspectives aren't completely unrelated. Now, this is of course theory, and these theories about the nature of interaction design don't tell us much about interaction designers' theories-in-action. That is, I guess, a rather good research question for anyone to take up.
Cheers,
// Mattias
ps. Leonardo, you can check the glossary and the theoretical chapter in my already old phd thesis for some definitions. You can find it here: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-5019 ds.
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MATTIAS ARVOLA, Ph.D.
Sr. lecturer in Interaction Design.
Linköping University and Södertörn University.
www.arvola.se
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