Not from Scratch: What the Fine Arts brings to HCI

January 5, 2006
Elouise Oyzon | Rochester Institute of Technology

While most users of technology are not students of art, all are immersed in a cultural landscape that has a shared and rich visual heritage. Myriad conventions that shape the way we perceive two-dimensional graphics are part of our visual vernacular.

Artists have been creating dimensional spaces: suggested, real seeming, textural, textual and emotional, for thousands of years. It behooves us to understand long established techniques used in the arts to convince the user/reader/audience of the tangibility of what they are sensing.

Speaker Details

Elouise Oyzon is a professor in the Information Technology at the ROchester Institute of Techonolgy. She holds a bachelors degree in Fine Arts, printmaking (etchings, lithography, woodcuts), and her masters degree in Fine Arts, Computer Animation. Her work has been shown in exhibitions and shows internationally. While her route to information technology has been unusual, she brings as her primary interest the goal to use interactive multimedia to make rich aesthetic experiences, and to explore its communication and creative potential.