Approaching Aesthetics on User Interface and Interaction Design

Wang, Chen; Sarcar, Sayan; Kurosu, Masaaki; Bardzell, Jeffrey; Oulasvirta, Antti; Miniukovich, Aliaksei; Ren, Xiangshi

doi:10.1145/3279778.3279809

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“…The idea is that all functions, techniques, tasks, and microtasks find optimal integrity, harmony, and efficiency through the mindful engagement of the attentive user. To practice HEC, researchers also need to consciously and deliberately develop their own inner human capacities of awareness and flow, through mindful attention to interactive tasks (Niksirat, Silpasuwanchai, Mohamed Hussien Ahmed, Cheng, & Ren, 2017;Niksirat, Silpasuwanchai, Cheng & Ren, 2019), through aesthetics (Wang, Sarcar, Kurosu, Bardzell, Oulasvirta, Miniukovich & Ren, 2018), trust, focus, sensitivity, and empathy, all of which HEC considers to form the basis for profitable and sustainable human expression in outer performance. HEC considers that the facilitation of deep user engagement with technologies is significantly affected by the corresponding engaging qualities of technologies, which are, in turn, dependent on the researcher/developer's own capacity to fully engage in the development process.…”

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Twelve Agendas on Interacting with Information: A Human-Engaged Computing Perspective

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Yuan

Ren

2020

Data and Information Management

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During the coronavirus global pandemic crisis, we have received information from authentic and inauthentic sources. Fake news, continuous rumors, and prejudiced opinions from digital platforms and social media have the capacity to disrupt social harmony, to stall personal development, and to undermine trust on all levels of human interaction. Despite the wide plurality of perspectives, the diversity of contents, the variety of voices, and the many often-conflicting reasons for publishing, our interactions with information on digital devices are progressively shaping such situations and affecting decisions on all levels. We look at the limitations of existing designs and guidelines in the current paradigm, and we ask to what extent researchers and developers can focus and contribute, through their innovations, to the reduction of uncertainty and cases of misdirection, how they can mitigate tensions between information and humans, and how they can contribute to the maintenance and enhancement of worthy human values. Human-engaged computing (HEC) calls for innate user capacities to be enhanced rather than displaced by digital technologies so that the human factor in interactions is fully exploited and truly efficient symbiotic relationships between humans and devices can be achieved. Under the framework of HEC, we propose 12 research agendas from the theoretical, principled, and practical aspects, in order to develop future synergized interactions between humans and information. The present crisis presents us with a good opportunity to reflect on the need to empower humans in relation to the tools they use and to consider the next paradigm shift for designing information interaction.

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confidence: 99%