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Title Aesthetic computing / edited by Paul Fishwick
Published Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2006]
©2006

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Description xvi, 457 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Series Leonardo
Leonardo (Series) (Cambridge, Mass.)
Contents 1. An introduction to aesthetic computing -- 2. Goodman's aesthetics and the languages of computing -- 3. A forty-year perspective on aesthetic computing in the Leonardo journal -- 4. The interface as sign and as aesthetic event -- 5. Metaphorical dimensions of diagrammatic graph representations -- 6. Metaphoric mappings : the art of visualization -- 7. Public space of knowledge : artistic practice in aesthetic computing -- 8. Visually encoding numbers utilizing prime factors -- 9. From the poesy of programming to research as art form -- 10. Transdisciplinary collaboration in "cell" -- 11. Processing code : programming within the context of visual art and design -- 12. Aesthetics and the visualization and quality of software -- 13. Aesthetics and mathematics : connections throughout history -- 14. Aesthetic computing and shape -- 15. The foundations of aesthetics -- 16. Aesthetics of large-scale relational information visualization in practice -- 17. The well-tempered computer? The aesthetics of program auralization -- 18. Tertiary artifacts at the interface -- 19. Transparency and reflectivity : digital art and the aesthetics of interface design -- 20. Articulating the use qualities of digital designs -- 21. Exploring attributes of skins as potential antecedents of emotion in HCI
Notes Formerly CIP. Uk
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Computer science.
Aesthetics.
Author Fishwick, Paul A.
LC no. 2005054458
ISBN 026206250X alkaline paper