Windows and Mirrors: Interaction Design, Digital Art, and the Myth of Transparency

by Jay David Bolter and Diane Gromala

Book Overview

The experience of digital art and how it is relevant to information technology. In Windows and Mirrors- Interaction Design, Digital Art, and the Myth of Transparency , Jay David Bolter and Diane Gromala argue that, contrary to Donald Norman's famous dictum, we do not always want our computers to be invisible "information appliances." They say that a computer does not feel like a toaster or a vacuum cleaner; it feels like a medium that is now taking...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 026252449x
• ISBN13: 9780262524490
• Release Date: September 2005
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 194 Pages
• Weight: 3.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.8" x 8.8"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher