TouchIT: Understanding Design in a Physical-Digital World 1st Edition Alan Dix

TouchIT: Understanding Design in a Physical-Digital World – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9780198718581,0198718586,9780191028670, 0191028673

Product details:

• ISBN 10:0191028673
• ISBN 13: 9780191028670
• Author: Alan Dix; Steve Gill; Devina Ramduny-Ellis; Jo Hare
  

Digital technology is fundamentally altering the world we live in, but can only be truly understood in relation to the physical world we all inhabit. The most successful future products and policies will be those that take this rich digital/physical ecology seriously. The physical world is increasingly filled with digital products to the extent that the boundaries of digital and physical reality become blurred. From mundane devices such as mobile phones and washing machines, to esoteric research including tangible computation and body implants, we continually bridge two worlds literally touching buttons and dials and simultaneously interacting with the digital systems that lie behind them. The connection between pure thought and abstract information is through solid keyboard and mouse; but likewise the material world of buildings, cars and running shoes is suffused with computation through sensors, displays and flashing LEDs. How do people understand this world and how can designers create usable hybrid physical-digital products? 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. In considering each, the authors look into the underlying physical processes, our human understanding of them, and then the way these inform and are informed by digital design. The end draws together the theoretical and practical implications of this for design, including practical advice, potential tools, and philosophical underpinnings.

Table contents:

1. Elements of Our Hybrid Existence

2. What’s Happening Now

3. Body

4. Mind

5. Body and Mind

6. Social, Organizational, and Cultural

7. Physicality of Things

8. Interacting with Physical Objects

9. Hybrid Devices

10. Tools, Equipment, and Machines

11. Physicality of Space

12. Comprehension of Space

13. The Built Environment

14. Digital Augmentation of Space

15. Representation and Language

16. Reproducibility

17. Embodied Computation

18. Connecting Physical and Digital Worlds

19. Design Lessons and Advice

20. Prototyping and Tool Support

21. Computational Modelling and Implementation

22. Theory and Philosophy of Physicality

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