Where the Action Is (MIT Press): The Foundations of Embodied Interaction (The MIT Press)
By Paul Dourish.
Description
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 oth...
ISBN(s)
0262541785, 9780262541787
