Skip to Content
Computers as Theatre, Second Edition
book

Computers as Theatre, Second Edition

by Brenda Laurel
September 2013
Intermediate to advanced
272 pages
7h 59m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
Content preview from Computers as Theatre, Second Edition

Contents

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgments

About the Author

Chapter 1 The Nature of the Beast

The Interface

Provenance of the Interface

Interface Metaphors

Interface Interdisciplines

Throw the Baggage Out

A Definitional Digression

Models of the Interface

The World’s a Stage

Theatre: More than an Interface Metaphor

Is Drama Serious Enough?

An Artistic Perspective

Chapter 2 Dramatic Foundations: Part 1: Elements of Qualitative Structure

Hoary Poetics

The Cultural Backdrop

Drama: Tragedy, Comedy, and Melodrama

The Four Causes, or Why Things Are the Way They Are

The Four Causes in Drama

The Four Causes in Human-Computer Interaction

The Six Elements and Causal Relations among Them

Enactment

Pattern

Language

Thought

Character and Agency

Plot: The Whole ...

Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.
Start your free trial

You might also like

Digital Media, Projection Design, and Technology for Theatre

Digital Media, Projection Design, and Technology for Theatre

Alex Oliszewski, Daniel Fine, Daniel Roth
PC Hardware in a Nutshell, 3rd Edition

PC Hardware in a Nutshell, 3rd Edition

Robert Bruce Thompson, Barbara Fritchman Thompson
Beyond the Usability Lab

Beyond the Usability Lab

Bill Albert, Tom Tullis, Donna Tedesco
Small, Sharp Software Tools

Publisher Resources

ISBN: 9780133390889Purchase book