IUAV current course references
This page lists references recommended for current courses in the Interaction Design programme at IUAV University of Venice.
STUDIO 1
Required
Reas, Casey, and Ben Fry. 2010. Getting Started with Processing. Sebastapol CA: O'Reilly Media / Make.
Saffer, Dan. 2006. Designing for Interaction: Creating Smart Applications and Clever Devices. Berkeley CA: Peachpit.
Studio 4.5 (Carola Zwick, Burkhard Schmitz, and Kerstin Kuhl). 2006. Designing for Small Screens: Mobile Phones, Smart Phones, PDAs, Pocket PCs, Navigation Systems, MP3 Players, Game Consoles. Switzerland: Ava.
Interesting and relvant
Caplin, Steve. 2001. Icon Design: Graphic Icons in Computer Interface Design. New York: Watson-Guptill.
Ling, Rich. 2004. The Mobile Connection: The Cell Phone's Impact on Society. San Francisco: Morgan Kaufmann.
Maeda, John. 2004. Creative Code: Aesthetics and Computation. London: Thames & Hudson.
Negroponte, Nicholas. 1995. Being Digital. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.
2004. Essere digitali. Milano: Sperling and Kupfer
Reas, Casey, and Ben Fry. 2007. Processing: A Programming Handbook for Visual Designers and Artists. Cambridge: MIT Press.
Troika (Conny Freyer et al). 2009. Digital by Design: Crafting Technology for Products and Environments. London: Phaidon
Websites
http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/saguaro/primer.htm A short summary of social capital ideas and references.
http://www.coffeehousechallenge.org/ http://www.rsa.org/ An interesting UK society focussed on using the skills and energy of the general population to improve society.
http://www.livework.co.uk/ www.enginegroup.co.uk/ Two UK service design firms: information and discussions about service design
http://www.designcouncil.org.uk/About-Design/Design-Disciplines/Service-design-by-Bill-Hollins/
THEORY 1: INTERACTION DESIGN CONCEPTS AND TECHNIQUES
Required
Moggridge, Bill. 2007. Designing Interactions. Cambridge: MIT Press.
Norman, Donald A. 1997. La caffettiera del masochista. Psicopatologia degli oggetti quotidiani. Florence: Giunti. (Trans. of The Psychology of Everyday Things. New York: Basic Books. 1988.)
Saffer, Dan. 2006. Designing for Interaction: Creating Smart Applications and Clever Devices. Berkeley CA: Peachpit.
Interesting and relevant
Anceschi, Giovanni, Massimo Botta, Maria Amato Garito. 2006. L'ambiente dell'apprendimento:Web design e Processi Cognitivi. Milan: Mc Graw-Hill
Bagnara, Sebastian, and Gillian Crampton Smith, eds. 2006. Theories and Practice of Interaction Design. Mahwah NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
Bonsiepe, Gui. 1995. Dall’oggetto all’interfaccia. Mutazioni del design. Milan: Feltrinelli. (English trans: Interface: An Approach to Design. Maastricht: Jan van Eyck Akademie.)
Botta, Massimo. 2006. Design dell’informazione. Tassonomie per la progettazione di sistemi grafici auto-nomatici. Trento: Artimedia.
Cooper, Alan, Robert Reimann, and David Cronin. 2007. About Face 3.0: The Esssentials of Interaction Design. New York: Wiley.
Norman, Donald A. 1995. Le cose che ci fanno intelligenti. Il posto della tecnologia nel mondo dell'uomo. Milan: Feltrinelli, Milano, 1995. (Trans. of Things that Make Us Smart: Defending Human Attributes in the Age of the Machine. Reading MA: Addison-Wesley. 1993.)
Tufte, Edward R. 1983. The Visual Display of Quantitative Information. Cheshire CT: Graphics Press.
STUDIO 2:
Required
Banzi, Massimo. 2009. Getting Started with Arduino. Sebastapol CA: O'Reilly. (Also in Italian)
Haque, Usman; Adam Somlai-Fischer. Low Tech Sensors and Actuators. Free download from http://www.lowtech.propositions.org.uk
Interesting and relevant
Bullivant, Lucy, ed. 2005. 4dSpace: Interactive Architecture (Architectural Design vol. 157). London: Academy.
Igoe, Tom. 2007. Making Things Talk. Sebastopol CA: O'Reilly.
Shanken, Edward A. 2009. Art and Electronic Media. London: Phaidon
N. Streitz, A. Kameas, I. Mavrommati (Eds.). 2007. The Disappearing Computer. Springer ISBN 978-3-540-72725-5
Sterling, Bruce. 2005. Shaping Things. Cambridge MA: MIT Press.
O’Sullivan, Dan; Tom Igoe. 2004. Physical Computing: Sensing and Controlling the Physical World with Computers. Boston: Thomson.
Tom Igoe's ITP course material is at http://tigoe.net/pcomp/
Troika (Conny Freyer et al). 2009. Digital by Design: Crafting Technology for Products and Environments. London: Phaidon
See also Physical computing references
Interesting and Useful sites
Arduino http://arduino.cc http://tinker.it
Processing http://processing.org
Electronics suppliers
See Physical computing references
THEORY 2: DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES
Recommended
Banzi, Massimo. 2009. Getting started with Arduino. Sebastopol CA:O'Reilly. (Also in Italian)
Igoe, Tom. 2007. Making Things Talk. Sebastopol CA:O'Reilly.
Noble J. 2009. Programming Interactivity: A Designer's Guide to Processing, Arduino, and OpenFrameworks. Sebastopol CA:O'Reilly.
O’Sullivan, D and Igoe, T. 2004. Physical Computing: Sensing and Controlling the Physical World with Computers. Boston: Thomson, 2004.