Jonas Löwgren, the author of "Thoughtful Interaction Design" and some papers in INFX15 Compendium, has recently written a paper on how the aesthetics of interaction design can be handled through Interaction Criticism. This paper briefly states that:
"Even though the emerging field of user experience generally acknowledges the importance of aesthetic qualities in interactive products and services, there is a lack of approaches recognizing the fundamentally temporal nature of interaction aesthetics. By means of interaction criticism, I introduce four concepts that begin to characterize the aesthetic qualities of interaction.
- Pliability refers to the sense of malleability and tightly coupled interaction that makes the use of an interactive visualization captivating.
- Rhythm is an important characteristic of certain types of interaction, from the sub-second pacing of musical interaction to the hour-scale ebb and flow of peripheral emotional communication.
- Dramaturgical structure is not only a feature of online role-playing games, but plays an important role in several design genres from the most mundane to the more intellectually sophisticated.
- Fluency is a way to articulate the gracefulness with which we are able to handle multiple demands for our attention and action in augmented spaces."
Read this "beautiful" paper here.
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