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Abstract information appliances: methodological exercises in conceptual design of computational things

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DIS '02: Proceedings of the 4th conference on Designing interactive systems: processes, practices, methods, and techniques

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The decisions we make when designing computational things cannot all be reduced to questions about functionality, usability testing, user requirements, etc. In HCI-related research and design, other fundamental aspects of design, such as the basic aesthetical choices involved, have a tendency to be hidden and seemingly forgotten. To support awareness and understanding of such basic aesthetical choices, we propose two methodological exercises that take the expressions of computational things in use as their starting points: i) to discover functionality in given expressions; and ii) to rediscover "expressionals" in given appliances. The aim with i) is to encourage reflection on the way in which functionality explains the expressions of things. With ii), the aim is to expose the more or less hidden aesthetical choices by means of re-interpreting them in given appliances. We present examples of the exercises and discuss more general issues, such as the central role of temporal gestalts and the art of using computational things.

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Abstract information appliances: methodological exercises in conceptual design of computational things
1. Human-centered computing
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    1. HCI design and evaluation methods
    2. HCI theory, concepts and models
  2. Interaction design
    1. Interaction design theory, concepts and paradigms

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DIS '02: Proceedings of the 4th conference on Designing interactive systems: processes, practices, methods, and techniques

June 2002

413 pages

ISBN:1581135157

DOI:10.1145/778712

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Bill Verplank
Stanford University
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Alistair Sutcliffe
UMIST
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I.N.R.I.A
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Jonathan Amowitz
PeopleSoft
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William Gaver
Royal College of Art

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