1. Jae Sang Yoo

2. The field of HCI lacks a proper discipline of interaction criticism.
In the past, Representationalism, the correspondence theory of truth used to
be accepted as a pragmatic knowledge fit for HCI.
In the present, there are some more areas of HCI that cannot be fulfilled
with those philosophical studies.
Introduction

3. Normative theories of usable interfaces
• Nielsen’s ten usability heuristics-double correspondence
• Norman ”Ideally, the user’s model and the design model are equivalent.”
Professional evaluational practices
• GOMS’s predicting task completion times
Past

4. The critical mass of HCI has moved beyond the goals and value of interaction
design before.
• Rise of aesthetics, affective interaction, experience design, intimate and embodied
interaction.
->a new type of criticism in the perspective of the arts and humanities.
Now

5. subjective and non-perspectival.
Thus, aesthetic judgments surrounding art, design, and other cultural
phenomena have been emerged to develop, share, and evaluate among
scholars and experts.
Criticism on a view of aesthetics

6. 1. Art and/or criticism educates our perception and/or directs acts of
cognition.
2. Criticism and aesthetic response are inseparable.
3. Critical activity involves a back and forth movement between pointing
out material particulars and relating them to interpreted wholes.
4. Art/criticism is enlightening.
5. Art/criticism is ethically uplifting.
Criticism as aesthetic response :
5 claims

7. Perception is an cultivatable skill.
Not all the humans are good at perception.
We can improve cognition.
When a theory of science is well explained, there is little concern for the
epistemological problem of how a reader perceives and comes to
understand the meaning of this data. However, in art, it is hard to notice
whether the user gets the idea of the work or not.
1. Art and/or criticism educates our
perception and/or directs acts of
cognition.

8. Criticism and aesthetic Response ↔scientific notions of knowledge
production
The discursive form of expert aesthetic knowledge is inseparable from the
personal and subjective activity of engaging with a work.
Everyday aesthetic experience is implied by the notion of criticism as a form
of directing attention.
2. Criticism and aesthetic response are
inseparable.

9. Aesthetic beauty can be found only in the union of material works and
human life worlds.
The film, triumph of the will, has been discussed even though the content is
inappropriate.
3. Criticism is a back-and-forth between
material particulars and interpreted
wholes.

10. 4. art/criticism is enlightening.

11. Since criticism educates our perception and cognition, we become habitually
more perceptive to the intersubjective responses and values of others
situated in ours and other cultures.
Enhances empathy, social solidarity and a more just society.
5. Art/criticism is ethically uplifting.

12. Traditional criticism
1. Creator
2. Artifact
3. Consumer
4. Social context
4 perspectives on interaction criticism
Categories in HCI
1. Interaction designer
2. Interface
3. User
4. Social context

13. http://gizmodo.com/5421983/lumino-project-next-generation-lego-crossed-with-
microsoft-surface/all
Lumino

14. Researchers’ view need to be focusing not only in pure engineering problems,
but also in arts and humanities.
For the Lumino, they expanded the realm of researcher by DIY system. By
providing the video, ppt, and other resources, they made readers into
creator.
Interaction designer

15. Features of Lumino
Domino
Tangram-like patterns
Tactile pleasure
Demo-application of checkers
Rubber stamp
Blurred the boundaries between engineering, crafting, and presentation.
Interface

16. Every user has their own subjective
intention and prejudices.
Aesthetic judgment is not just whatever
what I think is beautiful, but rather is
what we think is beautiful.
Implied reader
• With this idea, we can critique effectively.
User
Users of Lumino
• Members of the HCI
community
• A Lumino end user
• Members of the DIY
community

17. Lumino
Historical context
Social groups(DIYers, scientific
community)
Made in the context of masculinity
The social context of HCI
Most complex and
dynamic
->

18. Description+interpretation
HCI community should view in criticism and humanist theory like cognitive
science and social science.(how we experience, perceive, understand, and
feel about our experiences with technology.)
Conclusion