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  Taking [a]part: the politics and aesthetics of participation in experience-centered design
McCarthy J., Wright P., The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2015. 208 pp.  Type: Book (978-0-262028-55-4)

This book is written in the spirit of a true-life contemporary adventure chronicle, traversing primordial thin grey (design) frontiers that separate fogs of creativity from firm ground actualizations. Behold, a concise transdisciplinar...
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Aug 6 2015  
   The well-designed child
McCarthy J. Artificial Intelligence 172(18): 2003-2014, 2008.  Type: Article

John Locke had proposed that a baby starts his or her voyage in this unknown, complex world as a “blank slate.” Recent psychological studies support the view that children are born not as blank slates, but with cert...
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Jul 16 2009  
  The experience of enchantment in human–computer interaction
McCarthy J., Wright P., Wallace J., Dearden A. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing 10(6): 369-378, 2006.  Type: Article

Research on comparing the user interface with art is discussed in this paper. It presents an artist’s point of view about the quality of a user interface....
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Dec 19 2007  
  Problems and projections in CS for the next 49 years
McCarthy J. Journal of the ACM 50(1): 73-79, 2003.  Type: Article, Reviews: (2 of 2)

The author modestly chooses to concern himself only with the areas of his own work, these being artificial intelligence (AI), computation theory, and computer systems. He offers some insights into these areas, for example noting that ...
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Feb 14 2003  
  Problems and projections in CS for the next 49 years
McCarthy J. Journal of the ACM 50(1): 73-79, 2003.  Type: Article, Reviews: (1 of 2)

Although it does make several predictions, this brief paper is neither gloom-and-doom, nor pie-in-the-sky prognostication. Rather, it is better viewed as providing assessments, advice, hope, and directions for computer science through...
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Feb 10 2003  

 
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