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Where the action is : the foundations of embodied interaction
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Where the action is : the foundations of embodied interaction

Author: Paul Dourish
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2001.
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"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  Read more...
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Paul Dourish
ISBN: 0262041960 9780262041966 9780262541787 0262541785
OCLC Number: 46364835
Notes: "A Bradford book."
Description: x, 233 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: History of Interaction --
Getting in Touch --
Social Computing --
"Being-in-the-World": Embodied Interaction --
Foundations --
Moving Toward Design --
Conclusions and Directions.
Responsibility: Paul Dourish.
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The philosophical underpinnings of human-computer interaction and their consequences for future design.  Read more...

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1 History of Interaction
2 Getting in Touch
3 Social Computing
4 "Being-in-the-World": Embodied Interaction
5 Foundations
6 Moving Toward Design
7 Conclusions and Directions
1 History of Interaction
2 Getting in Touch
3 Social Computing
4 "Being-in-the-World": Embodied Interaction
5 Foundations
6 Moving Toward Design
7 Conclusions and Directions

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