Paul A. Fishwick

The stated goal of this volume is to explore the possibility of a new area concerned with the impact and effects of aesthetics on the field of computing. To this end, Fishwick has collected a large number of chapters by authors in art, design, computer science and mathematics. The diversity is striking – some authors consider aesthetics as something that can be "applied" to computing, some look at the aesthetics of computing, yet some write from a standpoint in digital arts where the issue is rather what impact computing may have on aesthetics – and there are clearly no final answers to be found in the volume. However, the diversity is also a strength in that most readers in the interaction design community would find something interesting in the collection.… (más)