5. Aesthetic Interaction
as...
• logics of expressions for accepting things in
our lives (Hallnäs and Redström)
• interaction gestalt and attributes for aesthetics
(Lim et al.)
• attention to “the richness of a system’s appearance,
interaction, and potential roles (Djajadiningrat et
al.)
• graceful interaction (Hashim et al.)
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6. Aesthetics with
Pragmatist’s turn
• Phenomenology of Perception as a stance: no
absolute aesthetics (Hummels & Overbeeke)
• Seeking definite definitions might lead to
endless argument
• Analytic Aesthetics vs. Pragmatist Aesthetics
(Shusterman)
• Pragmatist Aesthetics as a strong theoretical basis
for designing interactive systems (Peterson et al.)
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7. Pragmatist poetics
• understand what poetic interaction is by asking
what it does
• embody a real poem in daily practice.
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8. Poetics vs. Aesthetics
• not necessarily related to beauty
• not always perfect
• not about completion
• not rational, not always consistent
• not reflective
• not a logic of expression
• not emotional pleasing
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9. Poetic Interaction
Design
• a vague term
• an intangible notion
• how about seeing poetic interaction
design as a paradigm?
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10. Research Questions
• What are the basic beliefs of poetic interaction
design paradigm?
• What is the relationship between the design
researcher and knowledge from designing poetic
interaction?
• What kinds of methodology and tactics are
appropriate for poetic interaction design?
• What is there that can be known as poetic
interaction?
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12. Poetic Wisdom (Vico)
• Poetic character: nature human instincts
• Wisdom: the power of reflection and
reasoning
• Imagination: the center of poetic character
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13. Phenomenology of
poetics (Bachelard)
• “a sincere impulse toward admiration is always
necessary if we are to receive phenomenological
benefit of a poetic image”
• poetics associates to “unfinalization” or
“implicitness.”
• material imagination vs. formal imagination
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14. Metaphors & Poetics
• Metaphors: central to the understanding, not
only rhetorical (Lakoff & Johnson, 1980)
• Poetic metaphors vs. prosaic metaphors
(Numberg, 1987)
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15. Related Work
• Poetic Design (Ionascu, 2010)
• Poetic Interaction Design (Kolko, 2007)
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16. Poetic Design (Ionascu)
• a class of objects beyond instrumental (functional,
practical) power
• ‘Play could become a creative design process
embodying uncommon forms of use that regenerate
a poetics of everyday life”
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17. Poetic Interaction
Design (Kolko)
• A type of reflective and emotional design
• (It) “resonates immediately but continues to inform
later”
• “nearly always subtle, yet mindful.”
• reflection ? reasoning activity about poetics
• I argue: felt experience of poetics itself
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18. Poetic Interaction
design as a Paradigm
• Epistemological stance: a pragmatist
and constructivist approach to poetics
• Methodology: A framework based on
Verplank’s
• Ontological implication
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23. Material Imagination
(Bachelard)
• Material imagination is an idea that comes from
contact with nature.
• Material imagination vs. formal imagination
• 4 elements: earth, water, fire, air.
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24. Four types of
Imaginations
• Material imagination
• Expression imagination
• Function imagination
• Form imagination
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25. POETIC MATERIAL
• The material itself of an artifact eliciting poetic
imagination
• a novel, alternative, or uncommon usage of a
specific material.
• Material: indicating literally physical matters, or
metaphorically, issues and topics.
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36. Discussion
• Ambiguity & Ludic values
• Mythical world as underlining belief of life
(Vico)
• to give sense and passion to insensate things
(Vico) rather than to solve ‘wicked problems’ in the
functional world.
• Imagination upon unknowing things (Vico)
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37. Conclusion
• construct poetic interaction design as a
paradigm
• practical framework
• seeing Poetic Interaction Design as an
ontology of interaction design
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