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The aesthetics of touch in interaction design

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DPPI '07: Proceedings of the 2007 conference on Designing pleasurable products and interfaces

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https://doi.org/10.1145/1314161.1314205

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The sense of touch has been traditionally neglected in aesthetics. However, interaction design seems to always require some level of tactility or body activity for the experience. In this paper, I first give an overview of the historical arguments against a tactile aesthetics and offer reasons why these reasons are no longer valid. In the second section, I briefly present two design projects exploring unique tactile interfaces in an attempt to reconcile tactility with the aesthetics of interaction.

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DOI:10.1145/1314161

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