In this paper, I address the interplay between ethics and aesthetics, in the context
of everyday interaction with smart systems. This study is the result of a year’s time
development of my PhD research, whose general aim is to understand how people’s beliefs
and behaviours come to be shaped by the aesthetic experience with smart things. The
expected outcome is a set of design strategies to integrate moral reasoning in the framework
of design for behaviour change, relying on aesthetics in interaction. Preliminary results are
presented, based on a literature review in the area of aesthetics of interaction. Although basic,
these findings are helpful for they suggest that ethics and aesthetics in users-smart systems
interaction are interdependent. This insight holds promise for the development of an
aesthetics of moral reasoning, in the context of users-smart systems interaction. A researchthrough-
design approach will be adopted in the remaining two years, with the aim of testing
assumptions by means of working prototypes
