“Melville: The Aesthetic Turn”

The aesthetic turn: unravelling recent aesthetic approaches to human-computer interaction

With the rapid penetration of digital interfaces into all aspects of everyday life, the need for understanding the aesthetic aspects of interaction between humans and computers has come into focus. Various positions suggest that aesthetics offers IT design and research an enhanced analytical foundation going beyond the traditional use-oriented principles of HCI and usability. However, this new ...

Melville / Shakespeare

That Melville's Moby Dick contains nearly measureless references to the reading of Shakespeare is an old story featuring the whaling epic's persistent Shakespearean verbal echoes, the composition and sequencing of scenes, and the construction of Ahab as a tragic hero-villain, his shipmen as "knights and squires" and heroic commoners all caught in a tragic drama of the excesses and shortcomings ...

Grace as Guide to Morals? Schiller's Aesthetic Turn in Ethics

The aesthetic turn: ethical considerations in information retrieval and visualization system practice

IR systems are purposively designed to fulfill “information needs.” Yet there seems to be a dilemma between system modelers unreflective participation in traditional science’s empirical efforts of exposing a priori reality and reliance on relativistic, perhaps contradictory, user-based relevancy judgments of true facts. Adding information visualization techniques adds a layer of interpretative ...

Ward Melville High School Information

As American settlers moved ever westward in the 1800s, conflict continued with the Native Americans who lived in these territories. The federal government used a combination of treaties and force to move Native Americans westward. The treaties were worthless, because Native Americans were forced repeatedly to give up their land that had been guaranteed by treaty. In the late 1830s, President An...