Interface Culture

Author : Steven A. Johnson
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1999-10-07
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0465036805

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Drawing on his own expertise in the humanities and on the Web, Steven Johnson not only demonstrates how interfaces - those buttons, graphics, and words on the computer screen through which we control information - influence our daily lives, but also tracks their roots back to Victorian novels, early cinema, and even medieval urban planning. The result is a lush cultural and historical tableau in which today's interfaces take their rightful place in the lineage of artistic innovation. With a distinctively accessible style, Interface Culture brings new intellectual depth to the vital discussion of how technology has transformed society, and is sure to provoke wide debate in both literary and technological circles.

Author : Christa Sommerer,Laurent Mignonneau,Dorothée King
Publisher : Transcript Publishing
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015080882296

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Interface Cultures by Christa Sommerer,Laurent Mignonneau,Dorothée King Pdf

From media art archeology to contemporary interaction design - the term interface culture is based on a vivid and ongoing discourse in the fields of interactive art, interaction design, game design, tangible interfaces, auditory interfaces, fashionable technologies, wearable devices, intelligent ambiences, sensor technologies, telecommunication and new experimental forms of human-machine, human-human and machine-machine interactions and the cultural discourse surrounding them. This book's aim is to give an overview of the current state of interactive art and interface technology as well as an outlook on new forms of hybridization in art, media, scientific research and every-day media applications.

Author : Christa Sommerer,Laurent Mignonneau,Dorothée King
Publisher : transcript Verlag
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2015-07-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783839408841

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Interface Cultures by Christa Sommerer,Laurent Mignonneau,Dorothée King Pdf

From media art archeology to contemporary interaction design - the term interface culture is based on a vivid and ongoing discourse in the fields of interactive art, interaction design, game design, tangible interfaces, auditory interfaces, fashionable technologies, wearable devices, intelligent ambiences, sensor technologies, telecommunication and new experimental forms of human-machine, human-human and machine-machine interactions and the cultural discourse surrounding them. This book's aim is to give an overview of the current state of interactive art and interface technology as well as an outlook on new forms of hybridization in art, media, scientific research and every-day media applications.

Author : Michael Harris Bond
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2015-07-30
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781317380771

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Working at the Interface of Cultures by Michael Harris Bond Pdf

Behind the mask of objective science lie the dynamics of what happens to scientists who go to live and work in another culture. Those who work and study in an alien culture often find themselves changed in ways that affect their scientific work. How does this challenge, stimulate, provoke, suggest and inspire advances and novelty in their theories, methods and instruments? Originally published in 1997, each of the essays in this title explores these issues through the experiences of a distinguished practitioner, describing the process of intellectual growth and development. Chosen for their extensive experience with people holding a different worldview, the authors have all achieved renown for their contributions to the social science of culture.

Author : Professor Milena Radzikowska,Professor Stan Ruecker,Professor Stéfan Sinclair
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2012-10-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781409486657

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Visual Interface Design for Digital Cultural Heritage by Professor Milena Radzikowska,Professor Stan Ruecker,Professor Stéfan Sinclair Pdf

Browsing for information is a significant part of most research activity, but many online collections hamper browsing with interfaces that are variants on a search box. Research shows that rich-prospect interfaces can offer an intuitive and highly flexible alternative environment for information browsing, assisting hypothesis formation and pattern-finding. This unique book offers a clear discussion of this form of interface design, including a theoretical basis for why it is important, and examples of how it can be done. It will be of interest to those working in the fields of library and information science, human-computer interaction, visual communication design, and the digital humanities as well as those interested in new theories and practices for designing web interfaces for library collections, digitized cultural heritage materials, and other types of digital collections.

Author : Inger Birkeland,Rob Burton,Constanza Parra,Katriina Siivonen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2018-03-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317231561

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Cultural Sustainability and the Nature-Culture Interface by Inger Birkeland,Rob Burton,Constanza Parra,Katriina Siivonen Pdf

As contemporary socio-ecological challenges such as climate change and biodiversity preservation have become more important, the three pillars concept has increasingly been used in planning and policy circles as a framework for analysis and action. However, the issue of how culture influences sustainability is still an underexplored theme. Understanding how culture can act as a resource to promote sustainability, rather than a barrier, is the key to the development of cultural sustainability. This book explores the interfaces between nature and culture through the perspective of cultural sustainability. A cultural perspective on environmental sustainability enables a renewal of sustainability discourse and practices across rural and urban landscapes, natural and cultural systems, stressing heterogeneity and complexity. The book focuses on the nature-culture interface conceptualised as a place where experiences, practices, policies, ideas and knowledge meet, are negotiated, discussed and resolved. Rather than looking for lost unities, or an imaginary view of harmonious relationships between humans and nature based in the past, it explores cases of interfaces that are context-sensitive and which consciously convey the problems of scale and time. While calling attention to a cultural or ‘culturalised’ view of the sustainability debate, this book questions the radical nature-culture dualism dominating positive modern thinking as well as its underlying view of nature as pre-given and independent from human life.

Author : Christian Ulrik Andersen,Soren Bro Pold
Publisher : Aarhus Universitetsforlag
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2011-05-20
Category : Art
ISBN : 9788771243376

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Interface Criticism by Christian Ulrik Andersen,Soren Bro Pold Pdf

From the screen of our laptops, and from the ubiquitous portable devices, smart phones, and media players, to the embedded computation in clothes, architecture and big urban screens, interfaces are everywhere. They are simultaneously demanding our attention and computing quietly in the background, turning action into inter-action, and mediating our experience of and relations to the social and environmental. But how can aesthetics respond to this, and how do interfaces set the scene for artistic practices? Interface Criticism is not another design manual but a critical investigation for readers interested in the aesthetic, cultural and political dimensions of interfaces. With contributions from leading researchers within the field, the book covers a wide range of aesthetic expressions - including urban screens, wearable interfaces, performances, games, net-art, software art, and sound art, and discusses how new cultures evolve around, for example, open souce or live coding. The volume critically investigates the aesthetics of interfaces in ways that transcend the iconic surface of the graphical user interface and goes beyond the buttons. Ultimately the book develops interface aesthetics as an appropriate paradigm for a critical discussion of the computer.

Author : Sarah Coakley,Kay Kaufman Shelemay
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0674024567

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Pain and Its Transformations by Sarah Coakley,Kay Kaufman Shelemay Pdf

Pain is immediate and searing but remains a deep mystery for sufferers, their physicians, and researchers. As neuroscientific research shows, even the immediate sensation of pain is shaped by psychological state and interpretation. At the same time, many individuals and cultures find meaning, particularly religious meaning, even in chronic and inexplicable pain. This ambitious interdisciplinary book includes not only essays but also discussions among a wide range of specialists. Neuroscientists, psychiatrists, anthropologists, musicologists, and scholars of religion examine the ways that meditation, music, prayer, and ritual can mediate pain, offer a narrative that transcends the sufferer, and give public dignity to private agony. They discuss topics as disparate as the molecular basis of pain, the controversial status of gate control theory, the possible links between the relaxation response and meditative practices in Christianity and Buddhism, and the mediation of pain and intense emotion in music, dance, and ritual. The authors conclude by pondering the place of pain in understanding--or the human failure to understand--good and evil in history.

Author : Alexander R. Galloway
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780745662923

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The Interface Effect by Alexander R. Galloway Pdf

Interfaces are back, or perhaps they never left. The familiar Socratic conceit from the Phaedrus, of communication as the process of writing directly on the soul of the other, has returned to center stage in today's discussions of culture and media. Indeed Western thought has long construed media as a grand choice between two kinds of interfaces. Following the optimistic path, media seamlessly interface self and other in a transparent and immediate connection. But, following the pessimistic path, media are the obstacles to direct communion, disintegrating self and other into misunderstanding and contradiction. In other words, media interfaces are either clear or complicated, either beautiful or deceptive, either already known or endlessly interpretable. Recognizing the limits of either path, Galloway charts an alternative course by considering the interface as an autonomous zone of aesthetic activity, guided by its own logic and its own ends: the interface effect. Rather than praising user-friendly interfaces that work well, or castigating those that work poorly, this book considers the unworkable nature of all interfaces, from windows and doors to screens and keyboards. Considered allegorically, such thresholds do not so much tell the story of their own operations but beckon outward into the realm of social and political life, and in so doing ask a question to which the political interpretation of interfaces is the only coherent answer. Grounded in philosophy and cultural theory and driven by close readings of video games, software, television, painting, and other images, Galloway seeks to explain the logic of digital culture through an analysis of its most emblematic and ubiquitous manifestation – the interface.

Author : Steven Johnson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0062514830

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Author : Michael J. Smith,Gavriel Salvendy
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 690 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2011-06-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783642217920

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Human Interface and the Management of Information. Interacting with Information by Michael J. Smith,Gavriel Salvendy Pdf

This two-volume set LNCS 6771 and 6772 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Symposium on Human Interface 2011, held in Orlando, FL, USA in July 2011 in the framework of the 14th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2011 with 10 other thematically similar conferences. The 137 revised papers presented in the two volumes were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers accepted for presentation thoroughly cover the thematic area of human interface and the management of information. The 75 papers of this first volume address the following major topics: design and development methods and tools; information and user interfaces design; visualisation techniques and applications; security and privacy; touch and gesture interfaces; adaption and personalisation; and measuring and recognising human behavior.

Author : Alexander R. Galloway
Publisher : Polity
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-08
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780745662534

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The Interface Effect by Alexander R. Galloway Pdf

Rather than praising user-friendly interfaces that work well or castigating those that work poorly, this book considers the unworkable nature of all interfaces, from windows and doors to screens and keyboards.

Author : Branden Hookway
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2014-04-04
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780262525503

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Interface by Branden Hookway Pdf

A cultural theory of the interface as a relation that is both ubiquitous and elusive, drawing on disciplines from cultural theory to architecture. In this book, Branden Hookway considers the interface not as technology but as a form of relationship with technology. The interface, Hookway proposes, is at once ubiquitous and hidden from view. It is both the bottleneck through which our relationship to technology must pass and a productive encounter embedded within the use of technology. It is a site of contestation—between human and machine, between the material and the social, between the political and the technological—that both defines and elides differences. A virtuoso in multiple disciplines, Hookway offers a theory of the interface that draws on cultural theory, political theory, philosophy, art, architecture, new media, and the history of science and technology. He argues that the theoretical mechanism of the interface offers a powerful approach to questions of the human relationship to technology. Hookway finds the origin of the term interface in nineteenth-century fluid dynamics and traces its migration to thermodynamics, information theory, and cybernetics. He discusses issues of subject formation, agency, power, and control, within contexts that include technology, politics, and the social role of games. He considers the technological augmentation of humans and the human-machine system, discussing notions of embodied intelligence. Hookway views the figure of the subject as both receiver and active producer in processes of subjectification. The interface, he argues, stands in a relation both alien and intimate, vertiginous and orienting to those who cross its threshold.

Author : Jack Goody
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1987-07-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0521337941

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The Interface Between the Written and the Oral by Jack Goody Pdf

Essays on the complex relationship between oral and literate modes of communication.

Author : Stan Ruecker,Milena Radzikowska,Stefan Sinclair
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2016-02-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317001201

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Visual Interface Design for Digital Cultural Heritage by Stan Ruecker,Milena Radzikowska,Stefan Sinclair Pdf

Browsing for information is a significant part of most research activity, but many online collections hamper browsing with interfaces that are variants on a search box. Research shows that rich-prospect interfaces can offer an intuitive and highly flexible alternative environment for information browsing, assisting hypothesis formation and pattern-finding. This unique book offers a clear discussion of this form of interface design, including a theoretical basis for why it is important, and examples of how it can be done. It will be of interest to those working in the fields of library and information science, human-computer interaction, visual communication design, and the digital humanities as well as those interested in new theories and practices for designing web interfaces for library collections, digitized cultural heritage materials, and other types of digital collections.