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Windows and mirrors : interaction design, digital art, and the myth of transparency
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Windows and mirrors : interaction design, digital art, and the myth of transparency

Author: J David Bolter; Diane Gromala
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2003.
Series: Leonardo (Series) (Cambridge, Mass.)
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"In Windows and Mirrors: Interaction Design, Digital Art, and the Myth of Transparency, Jay David Bolter and Diane Gromala argues that, contrary to Donald Norman's famous dictum, we do not always want our computers to be invisible "information appliances." They say that a computer does not feel like a toaster or a vacuum cleaner, it feels like a medium that is now taking its place beside other media like printing,  Read more...
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: J David Bolter; Diane Gromala
ISBN: 0262025450 9780262025454 026252449X 9780262524490
OCLC Number: 52134647
Description: xi, 182 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: TEXT RAIN : the digital experience --
Wooden mirror : the myth of transparency --
Nosce te ipsum : seeing yourself in the digital mirror --
Magic book : the new and the old in new media --
Fakeshop : the diversity of new media --
T-garden : the materiality of new media --
Terminal time : design in context --
The Art Gallery of SIGGRAPH 2000 --
Before and after SIGGRAPH 2000 --
Colophon : Excretia and reading as a reflective experience.
Series Title: Leonardo (Series) (Cambridge, Mass.)
Responsibility: Jay David Bolter and Diane Gromala.

Abstract:

"In Windows and Mirrors: Interaction Design, Digital Art, and the Myth of Transparency, Jay David Bolter and Diane Gromala argues that, contrary to Donald Norman's famous dictum, we do not always want our computers to be invisible "information appliances." They say that a computer does not feel like a toaster or a vacuum cleaner, it feels like a medium that is now taking its place beside other media like printing, film, radio, and television. The computer as medium creates new forms and genres for artists and designers, Bolter and Gromala want to show what digital art has to offer to Web designers, education technologists, graphic artists, interface designers, HCI experts, and, for that matter, anyone interested in the cultural implications of the digital revolution."--BOOK JACKET.

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