TouchIT : understanding design in a physical-digital world / Alan Dix, Steve Gill, Jo Hare, Devina Ramduny-Ellis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dix, Alan, author.

Gill, Steve, author.

Hare, Jo, author.

Ramduny-Ellis, Devina, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human-computer interaction.

Industrial design--Data processing.

Industrial design.

Design--Human factors--Data processing.

Design.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (609 pages)

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2022]

Summary:

'TouchIT' brings together insights from human-computer interaction and industrial design, exploring these themes under four main headings: human body and mind; objects and things; space; and information and computation.

Contents:

cover

Titlepage

Copyright

Contents

Part I Introduction

1 Elements of Our Hybrid Existence

1.1 Why Study Physicality

1.2 Components of the Physical World

1.3 Kinds of Things: From Stones to Silicon

1.4 The Natural Order

1.4.1 The artificial-works of our hands

1.5 Coming Together

1.5.1 Making things usable-Human-Computer Interaction

1.5.2 Of designers, computer-embedded devices and physicality

1.6 Different Ways to Touch

1.7 Learning about Physicality

2 What's Happening Now

2.1 Computing in The World

2.1.1 Ubiquitous computing (ubicomp)

2.1.2 Internet of Things

2.1.3 Invisible intelligence

2.1.4 Sensors, surveillance, and smart cities

2.1.5 Nanotechnology and smart dust

2.2 Technology at Our Fingertips

2.2.1 Tangible user interfaces (TUI)

2.2.2 Haptics and smart materials

2.3 Up Close and Personal

2.3.1 Mobile and personal devices

2.3.2 Wearable computing and fashion

2.3.3 Physiological computing

2.4 Blending Digital and Physical Worlds

2.4.1 Simulated reality

2.4.2 Virtual reality

2.4.3 Augmented reality and mixed reality

2.5 Robots and Automation

2.5.1 Human-robot interaction

2.5.2 Not being there-telepresence robots

2.5.3 Robots you live in

2.6 Digital Fabrication and DIY Electronics

2.6.1 Digitized industry

2.6.2 3D printing and digital fabrication

2.6.3 DIY electronics and hacking

2.6.4 Maker culture, from coding to crafting

Part II Human Body and Mind

3 Body

3.1 Body as a Physical Thing

3.2 Size and Speed

3.3 The Networked Body

3.4 Adapting IT to the Body

3.5 The Body as Interface

3.6 As Carrier of IT-The Regular Cyborg

4 Mind

4.1 Mind as a Physical Thing

4.2 Memory and Time

4.3 Just Numbers

4.4 Multiple Intelligences

4.5 The Brain as Interface

4.6 Creativity and Physicality.

5 Body and Mind

5.1 Whole Beings

5.2 Sensing Ourselves

5.3 The Body Shapes the Mind-Posture and Emotion

5.4 Cybernetics of the Body

5.5 The Adapted Body

5.6 Plans and Action

5.7 The Embodied Mind

6 Social, Organizational, and Cultural

6.1 Personal Contact

6.2 Intimacy

6.3 Mediation and Sharing

6.4 Socio-organizational Church-Turing Hypothesis

6.5 Culture and Community of Practice

6.6 Political

Part III Objects and Things

7 Physicality of Things

7.1 Physics and Naïve Physics

7.2 Rules of Physical Things

7.3 Continuity in Time and Space

7.4 Conservation of Number and Preservation of Form

7.5 Emotion and Nostalgia

7.6 All Our Senses

8 Interacting with Physical Objects

8.1 Affordance Revisited-What We Can Do and What We Think We Can Do

8.2 Affordances of the Artificial

8.3 Adapted for New Actions

8.4 Action as Investigation

8.5 Letting the World Help

9 Hybrid Devices

9.1 Abstraction-Software as if Hardware Doesn't Matter

9.2 The Limits of Hardware Abstraction

9.3 Specialization-Computer-embedded Devices

9.4 What Does It Do?

9.5 Mapping

9.6 Feedback

9.7 The Device Unplugged

9.7.1 Exposed state

9.7.2 Hidden state

9.7.3 Tangible transitions and tension states

9.7.4 Natural inverse

10 Tools, Equipment, and Machines

10.1 Tools and the Development of Humankind

10.2 Affordance, Understanding, and Culture

10.3 Heidegger, Hammers, and Breakdown

10.4 From Philosophy to Design: Designing for Failure

10.5 Breakdown and Reflection

Part IV Space

11 Physicality of Space

11.1 Void-Matrix or Myth

11.2 From Nothing-Points, Lines, and Circles

11.3 Flatness-The Shape of Space

11.4 Uniformity-Continuity and Fracture

11.5 Scale-Size Matters

11.6 Relativity and Locality

11.7 Time Too

11.8 Terra Firma.

11.9 Patterns in the Landscape

12 Comprehension of Space

12.1 Early Understanding of Space

12.2 Childhood and Larger Spaces

12.3 Feeling and Acting in Space

12.4 Seeing Space-3D Vision

12.5 Mental Space

12.6 Maps, Sketches, and Cartography

12.7 Paths and Narrative

12.8 The Language of Space

12.9 Culture and Time/Space

12.10 Virtual Space

12.11 Place and Non-place

12.12 Journey or Destination

13 The Built Environment

13.1 Introduction

13.2 Physical-Digital Layers

13.3 Temporal Layering

13.4 Digital-Physical Playgrounds

13.5 The Conquest of Space

13.6 Computer Mediation

13.7 Digital Culture

13.8 The Internet of Things

13.9 Human Technology

14 Digital Augmentation of Space

14.1 Control over Space

14.2 Mobile Phones and Mobile Applications

14.3 Pervasive and Public Displays

14.4 Interacting with Public Displays

14.5 Public Roles, Privacy, and Intrusion

14.6 Space as Interface

14.7 Mixed Reality-Real Space Meets Virtual

14.8 Computational Space

14.9 Designing Intelligent Spaces

14.10 Fruits of Success

14.11 Hyperlocal

Part V Computation and Information

15 Representation and Language

15.1 Fire

15.2 Representation

15.3 Ideas

15.4 Externalization

15.5 From Knowing to Knowing about Knowing

15.6 Language and Learning

15.7 The Origins of Language

15.8 Interpretation

15.9 Internalization

15.10 The Development of Self

16 Reproducibility

16.1 Moulds, Plans, and Mass Production

16.2 Singularity and Scarcity

16.3 The Irreproducible and Impermanent

16.4 Recording

16.5 Decontextualization

17 Embodied Computation

17.1 The Physics of Information

17.2 Turing Machine or Touring Machine?

17.3 Physical Locality of Computation

17.4 Time and Distance

17.5 Finitude and Moore's Law.

17.6 Smaller and Smaller, More and More

17.7 Stand Up and Walk-Robots Come of Age

17.7.1 Environment

17.7.2 Embodied communication

17.8 Money

17.8.1 Money as value

17.8.2 Money as information

18 Connecting Physical and Digital Worlds

18.1 Visual Identifiers

18.2 Electronic Tagging

18.3 Intrinsic Properties

18.4 Marking the Environment and Media

18.5 Digital Identifiers of Physical Things

18.6 Bringing Them Together

18.7 Doing Things

18.8 Ways of Knowing

Part VI The Theory and Practice of Physicality

19 Design Lessons and Advice

19.1 Introduction

19.2 Lesson 1: Prototype a Lot

19.3 Lesson 2: Context Offers Complications and Solutions

19.4 Lesson 3: Be Human-centric

19.5 Lesson 4: Highly Abstracted and Selective Physicality Can Be Powerful

19.6 Lesson 5: Sometimes Using Physicality Just Makes More Sense

20 Prototyping and Tool Support

20.1 Introduction

20.2 The Problem with Digitality

20.3 Interaction Design Tools

20.4 State Transition Diagrams

20.5 Storyboarding

20.6 Paper Prototyping

20.7 Video

20.8 Software/Hardware Hybrid Approaches

20.9 Serious Toys

20.10 Bespoke Kits

20.11 Office Software

20.12 The Power of the Keyboard

20.13 Programmable Boards

20.14 Internet of Things

20.15 Automated PCB Design Tools

21 Computational Modelling and Implementation

21.1 Modelling

21.1.1 Continuity

21.1.2 Intention

21.2 Software - Engineering, Architecture, and Security

21.2.1 Where do you do computation?

21.2.2 Where am I?

21.2.3 Networks

21.3 Working with Electronics

21.4 Time and Delays

21.4.1 Delay-sensitive interaction

21.4.2 Physical actions take time

21.4.3 Coding it

21.5 Pragmatics

21.5.1 Resilience

21.5.2 Cost and size

22 Theory and Philosophy of Physicality

22.1 Gathering Threads.

22.2 What It Means to Be Physical

22.3 Ghosts of Physicality

22.3.1 Money

22.3.2 Space

22.4 Embodied Cyborgs

22.5 The Limits of Embodiment

22.6 The Extended Genome

22.7 Hybrid Ecologies

22.8 From Object to Agent

22.9 Deep Digitality

22.10 Final Call

Bibliography

Image Credits

Index.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2022.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on October 7, 2022).

ISBN:

0-19-102867-3

1-5231-5611-2

0-19-195590-6

0-19-102866-5