Digital da Vinci: computers in the arts and sciences

摘要

The contributors to this collection on computers in the arts and sciences are widely distributed both geographically and by discipline/background. Among the contributors, there are people from cognitive science, management science, design, and education, as well as a number of practitioners. Readers looking for broadly applicable findings or contributions to computational knowledge will be disappointed by much of this book; technical work is typically reported in an "experiment and describe what happens" style rather than with a more methodological approach. The work that is reported is often exploratory and experimental, but fairly lightweight in terms of what we can learn at a broader level from reading, and often fails to deliver to a computing audience. Evaluation is often ignored and the scope of work reported is often limited, with little consideration of how findings could be applied more widely. The volume is also rather poorly edited, with spelling, punctuation, grammar, and citation discrepancies littering several chapters, for example chapters 5 and 9.