Dear Leonardo,
I've been doing research in a similar space you are, and have to agree with
Mattias that it depends on the theoretical framework and perspective you are
taking. As designer, I've found these two quite useful.
Designing for Interaction, Dan Saffer
Thoughtful interaction design: A design perspective on Information
Technology, Jonas Lowgren and Erik Stolterman.
From a more theoretical and academic perspective, I am following Jodi
Forlizzi et al. at Carnegie Mellon. I'd suggest you look at the SenseChair
project, which involve elderly as target audience.
Hope this helps.
Diana.
2010/11/13 leonardo Pereira <[log in to unmask]>
> Dear Mattias
> First of all thank you very much for the trouble of replying back to me.
> I've allready downloaded your thesys and you give some definitions, such as
> interaction Design, that I will use in my own work.
>
> And you are totally right. I've been having a hard time trying to find
> standard and common definitions of concepts such as usability, Interface
> Design, Interaction design, an so on, and it´s hard! It seems like all of
> these concepts cross with each other turning their frontiers totally
> blured.
>
> Nevertheless, thank you very much for your valuable inputs.
>
> Cheers :)
> Leonardo
>
>
>
>
> On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 1:47 PM, Mattias Arvola <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> > 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.
> > --
> > MATTIAS ARVOLA, Ph.D.
> > Sr. lecturer in Interaction Design.
> > Linköping University and Södertörn University.
> > www.arvola.se
> >
>
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