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Computers as Theatre, 2nd Edition
- By Brenda Laurel
- Published Sep 27, 2013 by Addison-Wesley Professional.
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- Packed with new examples, techniques, and principles captured from an extraordinary range of sources: from social networks and mobile sensors to ancient Greek theatre
- Covers new frontiers: the “Internet of Things,” distributed/participatory sensing, interactive public installations, design for emergence, and more
- Built on an absolutely unique classic in human-computer interaction: powerfully relevant to every software developer and interaction designer
Description
- Copyright 2014
- Edition: 2nd
- Book
- ISBN-10: 0-321-91862-2
- ISBN-13: 978-0-321-91862-8
Brenda Laurel's Computers as Theatre revolutionized the field of human-computer interaction, offering ideas that inspired generations of interface and interaction designers-and continue to inspire them. Laurel's insight was that effective interface design, like effective drama, must engage the user directly in an experience involving both thought and emotion. Her practical conclusion was that a user's enjoyment must be a paramount design consideration, and this demands a deep awareness of dramatic theory and technique, both ancient and modern.
Now, two decades later, Laurel has revised and revamped her influential work, reflecting back on enormous change and personal experience and forward toward emerging technologies and ideas that will transform human-computer interaction yet again. Beginning with a clear analysis of classical drama theory, Laurel explores new territory through the lens of dramatic structure and purpose. Computers as Theatre, Second Edition, is directed to a far wider audience, is written more simply and elegantly, is packed with new examples, and is replete with exciting and important new ideas.
- This book
- Draws lessons from massively multiplayer online games and systems, social networks, and mobile devices with embedded sensors
- Integrates values-driven design as a key principle
- Integrates key ideas about virtual reality
- Covers new frontiers, including augmented reality, distributed and participatory sensing, interactive public installations and venues, and design for emergence
Once more, Brenda Laurel will help you see the connection between humans and computers as you never have before-and help you build interfaces and interactions that are pleasurably, joyously right!
Extras
Related Article
My Life in Tech: Q&A with User Experience Student Reecha Bharali
Author's Site
Please visit the author's site at www.tauzero.com/Brenda_Laurel
Sample Content
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Dramatic Interactors: Collaboration, Constraints, and Engagement in Human-Computer Interaction
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Table of Contents
Foreword xi
Preface xvii
Acknowledgments xix
About the Author xxiii
Chapter 1: The Nature of the Beast 1
The Interface 2
Throw the Baggage Out 16
Theatre: More than an Interface Metaphor 28
Chapter 2: Dramatic Foundations–Part I: Elements of Qualitative Structure 41
Hoary Poetics 41
The Four Causes, or Why Things Are the Way They Are 49
The Six Elements and Causal Relations among Them 57
Chapter 3: Dramatic Foundations—Part II: Orchestrating Action 79
Whole Actions 79
Dramatic Potential: The “Flying Wedge” 82
Dramatic Anatomy 95
Chapter 4: Dramatic Interactors: Collaboration, Constraints, and Engagement 109
Human-Computer Interaction as Mediated Collaboration 110
Constraints 128
Engagement: The First-Person Imperative 139
Chapter 5: Design Heuristics 149
Computer as Medium 149
Interface Metaphors: Powers and Limitations 151
The Primacy of Action 156
Designing Character and Thought 163
Understanding Audiences 170
Chapter 6: New Terrain in Interaction Design 177
Methods and Media 177
Extending the Geometry of Dramatic Interaction 199
Design for Emergence 207
Design for the Good 215
References 221
Index 231
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