Kirsten Boehner
Phoebe Sengers
Skip Abstract Section
Abstract
A variety of approaches have emerged in HCI that grapple with the ineffable, ill-defined, and idiosyncratic nature of aesthetic experience. The most straightforward approach is to transform the ineffable aspects of these experiences into precise representations, producing systems that are well-defined and testable but may miss the fullness of the experienced phenomenon. But without formal models and codified methods, how can we design and evaluate for a phenomenon we aren't sure can be adequately captured? In this article, we present a case study of a system for reflection and awareness of emotional presence that was, in a sense, lived into being. Through system design, use, and evaluation we recount how the system evolved into something that enhanced rather than impoverished the sympathetic awareness of another. In discussing the strategies and results of the case study, we examine what it means for the HCI community to not only design for aesthetic experiences but also bring aesthetics into the practice of HCI.
- Angesleva, J., Reynolds, C., and O'Modhrain, S. 2004. Emotemail. Poster presented at 31st International Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques (SIGGRAPH) (Los Angeles, CA). ACM Press, New York, NY. Google Scholar
Digital Library
- Bannon, L. and Bødker, S. 1991. Beyond the interface: encountering artifacts in use. In Designing Interaction: Psychology at the Human-Computer Interface, J. Carroll (Eds.), Cambridge University Press, New York, NY, 227--253. Google ScholarDigital Library
- Bødker, S. 1998. Understanding representation in design. Hum. Comput. Inter. 13, 2, 107--125. Google ScholarDigital Library
- Boehner, K., DePaulo, R., Dourish, P., and Sengers, P. 2005. Affect: From Information to Interaction. In Proceedings of the 4th Decennial Critical Computing (Aarhus, Denmark), O. Bertlesen et al. (Eds.). ACM Press, New York, NY, 59--68. Google ScholarDigital Library
- Boehner, K., Depaulo, R., Dourish, P., and Sengers, P. 2007a. How Emotion is Made and Measured. Inter. J. Hum. Comput. Studies 65, 4, 275--291. Google ScholarDigital Library
- Boehner, K., Vertesi, J., Sengers, P., and Dourish, P. 2007b. How HCI Interprets the Probes. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (San Jose, CA), B. Begole et al. (Eds.). ACM Press, New York, NY, 1077--1086. Google ScholarDigital Library
- Brooks, R. A. 1991. Intelligence without representation. Artif. Intell. 47, 139--159. Google ScholarDigital Library
- Chang, A., Resner, B., Koerner, B., Wang, X., and Ishii, H. 2001. LumiTouch: An emotional communication device. In Extended Abstracts of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Seattle, WA), J. Jacko and A. Sears (Eds.). ACM Press, New York, NY, 313--314. Google ScholarDigital Library
- Day, R. 2000. The conduit metaphor and the nature and politics of information studies. J. Amer. Soc. Inform. Sci. 51, 9, 805--811. Google ScholarDigital Library
- Dewey, J. 1934. Art as Experience. Minton, Balch and Company, New York, NY.Google Scholar
- Dey, A. K. and De Guzman, E. 2006. From awareness to connectedness. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Montréal, Québec, Canada), R. Grinter et al. (Eds.). ACM Press, New York, NY, 899--908. Google ScholarDigital Library
- Dourish, P. and Bly, S. 1992. Portholes. InProceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. (Monterey, CA), P. Bauersfeld (Eds.). ACM Press, 541--547. Google ScholarDigital Library
- Dourish, P. 2006. Implications for design. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Montréal, Québec, Canada), R. Grinter et al. (Eds.). ACM Press, New York, NY, 541--550. Google ScholarDigital Library
- Dunne, A, and Raby, F. 1994. Fields and Thresholds. Presented at Doors of Perception. http://www.mediamatic.nl/Doors/Doors2/DunRab/DunRab-Doors2-E3.htmlGoogle Scholar
- Dunne, A. and Raby, F. 2001. Design Noir: The Secret Life of Objects. Birhauser, Basel, Switzerland.Google Scholar
- Fallman, D. 2003. Design-oriented human-computer interaction. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Ft. Lauderdale, FL). G. Cockton and P. Korhonen (Eds.). ACM Press, New York, NY, 225--232. Google ScholarDigital Library
- Fishwick, P. 2006. Aesthetic Computing. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA. Google ScholarDigital Library
- Gaver, W. 2001. Designing for ludic aspects of everyday life. ERCIM News 47, 20--21.Google Scholar
- Gaver, W., Beaver, J., and Benford, S. 2003. Ambiguity as a resource for design. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Ft. Lauderdale, FL), G. Cockton and P. Korhonen (Eds.). ACM Press, 233--240. Google ScholarDigital Library
- Heidegger, M. 1990. Being and time, John Macquarrie and Edward Robinson, (trans). In The Hermeneutic Tradition: From Ast to Ricoeur, Gayle L. Ormiston and Alan D. Schrift (Eds.). State University of New York Press, Albany, NY.Google Scholar
- Hume, D. 1740. A Treatise of Human Nature (1967, edition). Oxford University Press, Oxford, England.Google Scholar
- Kant, I. 1952. Critique of Judgement. Clarendon Press, Oxford, England.Google Scholar
- Karahalios, K. and Donath, J. 2004. Telemurals. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Vienna, Austria), E. Dykstra-erickson and M. Tscheligi (Eds.). ACM Press, 615--622. Google ScholarDigital Library
- Kolko, J. 2007. Thoughts on Interaction Design. Brown Bear LLC, Savannah, GA.Google Scholar
- McCarthy, J. and Wright, P. 2004. Technology as Experience. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA. Google ScholarDigital Library
- McCarthy, J, Wright, P, Wallace, J., and Dearden, A. 2006. The experience of enchantment in human-computer interaction. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, 10, 6, 369--378. Google ScholarDigital Library
- Mitchell, W., Inouye, A., and Blumenthal, M. 2001. Beyond Productivity: information Technology, Innovation, and Creativity. The National Academies Press, Washington, D.C. Google ScholarDigital Library
- Nake, F. and Grabowski, S. 2006. The interface as sign and as aesthetic event. In Aesthetic Computing, P., Fishwick (Ed.). MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 53--70.Google Scholar
- Pederson, E. R. and Sokoler, T. 1997. AROMA. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, S. Pemberton (Ed.). ACM Press, Atlanta, GA, 51--58. Google ScholarDigital Library
- Peters, J. D. 1986. Speaking into the Air. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL.Google Scholar
- Picard, R. 1997. Affective Computing. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA. Google ScholarDigital Library
- Pold, S. 2005. The Critical Interface. In Proceedings of 4th Decennial Critical Computing (Aarhus, Denmark), O. Bertlesen et al. (Eds). ACM Press, New York, NY, 109--112. Google ScholarDigital Library
- Sengers, P., Boehner, K., Mateas, M., and Gay, G., 2008. The disenchantment of affect. Journal of Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing 12, 5, 347--358. Google ScholarDigital Library
- Sengers, P. and Csikszentmihályi, C. 2003. HCI and the arts: conflicted convergence? In Extended Abstracts of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Ft. Lauderdale, FL), G. Cockton and P. Korhonen (Eds.). ACM Press, New York, NY, 876--877. Google ScholarDigital Library
- Sengers, P. and Gaver, W. 2006. Staying open to interpretation. In Proceedings of the 6th Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (University Park, PA), J. Carroll et al. (Eds). ACM Press, New York, NY, 99--108. Google ScholarDigital Library
- Sengers, P., Liesendahl, R., Magar, W., Seibert, C., M¨uller, B., Joachims, T., Geng, W., Mårtensson, P., and Höök, K. 2002. The enigmatics of affect. In Proceedings of the 4th Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (London, England), B. Verplank et al. (Eds.). ACM Press, New York, NY, 87--98. Google ScholarDigital Library
- Shepherd, G. J. 2006. Communication as transcendence. In, Communication as…, G. J. Shepherd et al. (Eds). Sage, Thousand Oaks, CA, 22--30.Google Scholar
- Suchman, L. 1993. Plans and Situated Actions. University of Cambridge Press, Cambridge, England.Google Scholar
- Sundström, P., Ståhl, A., and Höök, K. 2005. eMoto: affectively involving both body and mind. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Portland, OR), W. Kellogg et al. (Eds.). ACM Press, New York, NY, 2005--2008. Google ScholarDigital Library
- Tatar, D. 2007. The design tensions framework. Hum.-Comput. Inter., 22, 4, 413--451. Google ScholarDigital Library
- Wilson, S. 2002. Information Arts: Intersections of Art, Science, and Technology. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.Google Scholar
- Winograd, T. and Flores, F. 1986. Understanding Computers and Cognition. Addison-Wesley, Reading, MA. Google ScholarDigital Library
- Wolf, T., Rode, J., Sussman, J., and Kellogg, K. 2006. Dispelling ‘design’ as the black art of CHI. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Montréal, Québec, Canada), R. Grinter et al. (Eds.). ACM Press, New York, NY 521--530. Google ScholarDigital Library
Index Terms
- Interfaces with the ineffable: Meeting aesthetic experience on its own terms
Recommendations
Performing perception—staging aesthetics of interaction
In interaction design for experience-oriented uses of technology, a central facet of aesthetics of interaction is rooted in the user's experience of herself “performing her perception.” By drawing on performance (theater) theory, phenomenology and ...
Reflections on 25 Years of Ethnography in CSCW
In this article we focus attention on ethnography's place in CSCW by reflecting on how ethnography in the context of CSCW has contributed to our understanding of the sociality and materiality of work and by exploring how the notion of the `field site' ...
Immersive Design Fiction: Using VR to Prototype Speculative Interfaces and Interaction Rituals within a Virtual Storyworld
DIS '18: Proceedings of the 2018 Designing Interactive Systems ConferenceImmersive design fiction is a novel approach that embeds speculative interactions within a rich virtual reality (VR) storyworld. Immersive design fictions use VR to translate new design opportunities into story-driven, embodied experiences by ...
Comments