Crafting interaction: The epistemology of modern programming

Lindell, Rikard

doi:10.1007/s00779-013-0687-6

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“…Dourish and Mazmanian suggest that there is a materiality of digital representations, and digital technologies need to be studied on their own materiality and on their particular forms of practice [30]. Previous results have shown that program language code can be considered a material [15]. Thus, masons chopping letters from stone with a chisel and a hammer can be metaphor for the description of symbols in C code.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Thus, experience designers can learn from more traditional design disciplines to be attentive to the designs' materiality [19]. Furthermore, a previous study has shown that the metaphor of material is applicable to program language code [15]. In this study the informants, users of programming languages, were concerned with the material's internal malleability.…”

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confidence: 97%

“…Design is the exploratory use of malleable tangible materials and provides suggestions for possible future solutions [7,13]. The design process is tightly connected to the material and the materiality of the design [14][15][16]. Information technology can be regarded as a material with no recognisable features [16,17].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…However, there are still design problems left unattended because the material of the design process is different from the material of the implementation process. Material consciousness of code and simultaneous problem-setting and problem-solving allow software artisans to be attentive to designs' experiential qualities in the making of the artefact [15].…”

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The Design Process Continues

Lindell

2015

Entertainment Computing - ICEC 2015

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Abstract. How to attend experiential values of a design throughout the implementation is still an open issue. The interplay between experience design and software engineering is problematic because of the different epistemologies of design and engineering. Interaction design is a design practice, whereas software engineering describes itself as engineering and science. There is a long tradition in design of discussing materials and the craft of making artefacts. Thus, if we have a material, it is reasonable to say that we have a craft. If programming language code is a design material, then, making a finished artefact is the shaping of material. The development process can thus continue as a design process up to version 1.0. This paper presents a design case up to version 1.0 of a music creativity app, utilising design through programming. The app design validity was evaluated in a field study at an electronica music festival. Material consciousness of code, and an open-ended, and quality-driven design process allow attention to the experiential qualities of the design.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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The Design Process Continues

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2015

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“…As Lindell argues, the interplay between interaction design and software engineering is problematic as these two activities have different epistemology. But treating information and code as a material can bring the two traditional disciplines into a combined craftsmanship (Lindell 2014).…”

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Transdisciplinarity Seen Through Information, Communication, Computation, (Inter-)Action and Cognition

Dodig-Crnković¹,

Kade²,

Wallmyr³

et al. 2017

Information Studies and the Quest for Transdisciplinarity

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Similar to oil that acted as a basic raw material and key driving force of industrial society, information acts as a raw material and principal mover of knowledge society in the knowledge production, propagation and application. New developments in information processing and information communication technologies allow increasingly complex and accurate descriptions, representations and models, which are often multi-parameter, multiperspective, multi-level and multidimensional. This leads to the necessity of collaborative work between different domains with corresponding specialist competences, sciences and research traditions. We present several major transdisciplinary unification projects for information and knowledge, which proceed on the descriptive, logical and the level of generative mechanisms. Parallel process of boundary crossing and transdisciplinary activity is going on in the applied domains. Technological artifacts are becoming increasingly complex and their design is strongly user-centered, which brings in not only the function and various technological qualities but also other aspects including esthetic, user experience, ethics and sustainability with social and environmental dimensions. When integrating knowledge from a variety of fields, with contributions from different groups of stakeholders, numerous challenges are met in establishing common view and common course of action. In this context, information is our environment, and informational ecology determines both epistemology and spaces for action. We present some insights into the current state of the art of transdisciplinary theory and practice of information studies and informatics. We depict different facets of transdisciplinarity as we see it from our different research fields that include information studies, computability, human-computer interaction, multi-operatingsystems environments and philosophy.

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SketchCode – An Extensible Code Editor for Crafting Software

Baader

Bødker

2015

End-User Development

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Crafting interaction: The epistemology of modern programming

Cited by 28 publications

References 14 publications

The Design Process Continues

The Design Process Continues

Transdisciplinarity Seen Through Information, Communication, Computation, (Inter-)Action and Cognition

SketchCode – An Extensible Code Editor for Crafting Software

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