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What Is Interactivity?
Author(s) -
Boyarski Dan
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
design management journal (former series)
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1948-7169
pISSN - 1045-7194
DOI - 10.1111/j.1948-7169.1997.tb00169.x
Subject(s) - interactivity , dance , kiss (tnc) , computer science , human–computer interaction , feature (linguistics) , multimedia , aesthetics , visual arts , art , linguistics , philosophy , computer network
INTERACTIVITY, Dan Boyarski reminds us, is an essential feature of being human: A chat, a kiss, a dance, a work of art are all modes of interaction. It is when we want to translate this exchange among human beings to an exchange between a person and a machine that all kinds of design questions come up. Boyarski responds by defining the nature of true interaction and by critiquing a range of interactive products and experiences.