Paul Dourish

The philosophical underpinnings of human-computer interaction and their consequences for future design.

The Foundations of Embodied Interaction

Where the Action is

Nelson Zagalo

Brilliant but difficult to read. Dourish presents a model for a new approach to the science of interaction, that he calls Embodied Interaction. The most interesting is the different perspectives brought, mainly the phenomenological ones, to design the framework. 
The problem, and that's why the book became so difficult to read, is that Dourish tried to work a model that would serve any kind of interaction. This took him to elevate the discourse unto a very high level of abstraction.

Anyhow, a relevant book for any academic working with interaction sciences.

Where the Action is The Foundations of Embodied Interaction

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