This workshop advanced HCI aesthetics into a research agenda. It concluded by formulating foundations of HCI aesthetics (chiaesthetics?). These centred on developing a new vocabulary of interactive experiences that defines the material of presence grounded in research involving experiment, analysis and intervention.

John Knigth from BIAD UserLab, has put out a summary of the Nordichi 2004 workshop Finland on Aesthetic Approaches to HCI on Usability News. Yours truely is cited among a bunch of others excellent people working from a variety of fields, but none the less in the same direction of “chiaesthetics”, hmmm. John sums it up pretty good! go read it