Applied Pragmatism and Interaction Design

2009 ◽  
pp. 352-366
Author(s):  
Anders I. Mørch
Keyword(s):  
User Interfaces ◽  
Interaction Design ◽  
Interactive Systems ◽  
Furniture Design ◽  
Cultural Perspective ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Multi Stage ◽  
Cultural Domain ◽  
Stage Process ◽  
Translational Approach

This chapter presents a translational approach to socio-technical design, as a new approach to the theorybased design of user interfaces, supported by a multi-stage process. A survey of the early work on theorybased design in HCI identifies the strengths and limitations of this approach. This new approach extends HCI with a socio-cultural perspective, and adopts creative practices from the fields of architecture and furniture design. The process consists of three stages: selection, appropriation, and translation that “map” elements from the socio-cultural domain to the HCI domain. Two interactive systems are used to illustrate the process, informed by ideas of American pragmatism. The chapter ends by discussing the strengths and limitations of the translational approach, and points out directions for further work.

Externalized Design

2011 ◽  
pp. 64-84
Author(s):  
Anders I. Mørch
Keyword(s):  
Human Computer Interaction ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
User Interfaces ◽  
Interaction Design ◽  
Early Stage ◽  
Interactive Systems ◽  
Computer Supported Collaborative Learning ◽  
New Approach ◽  
American Pragmatism ◽  
Reflection In Action

In this chapter, the author presents a conceptual framework for early-stage interaction design (EDOS) together with a method for embedding conceptual artifacts in user interfaces. The notion of ‘externalized design’ from postmodern architecture is used as an analogy for how to incorporate conceptual artifacts like social ideas in user interfaces. This is proposed as a new approach to theory-based design in human-computer interaction (HCI) and computer-supported collaborative learning (CSCL). The framework is applied to the retrospective analysis of two interactive systems the author has been involved in designing over a number of years. These systems were stimulated by two concepts associated with American pragmatism (generalized other, reflection-in-action). A multistage process for expressing the concepts in user interfaces is presented. The chapter ends by discussing the strengths and limitations of the EDOS framework, comparing it with related work, and suggesting directions for further work.

Interaction Per Se

2011 ◽  
pp. 71-97 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mikael Wiberg
Keyword(s):  
Ubiquitous Computing ◽  
User Interfaces ◽  
Interaction Design ◽  
Design Space ◽  
Systems Design ◽  
Graphical User Interfaces ◽  
Interactive Systems ◽  
It Use ◽  
Per Se ◽  
Ambient Systems

Interaction is a core concept in the fields of Ubiquitous computing, Ambient systems design, and generally in the fields of HCI and Interaction Design. Despite this, a lack of knowledge about the fundamental character of interaction still exists. Researchers have explored interaction from the viewpoints of user-centered design and design of graphical user interfaces, where interaction stands for the link between technology and humans or denotes the use aspect. A framework is proposed for exploring interaction as a design space in itself between a human and the technology. It is proposed that this framework for interaction as a design space for Interaction Design, in which the very form of the in-between, the interaction, be explicitly targeted. It is an opportunity to go beyond user and usability studies to seek answers to fundamental questions concerning the form and character of interaction as implemented in today’s interactive systems. Moreover, this framework is an opportunity to expand and explain a new design space for Interaction Design. The proposed framework, anchored in two exemplifying cases, illustrates the character and the form of interaction as it situates itself in online, ubiquitous and everyday IT use.

scholarly journals Computational Interaction

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Language Processing ◽  
User Interfaces ◽  
Interaction Design ◽  
Interactive Systems ◽  
Economic Modelling ◽  
Model Interaction ◽  
Computer Interfaces ◽  
Human Computer Interfaces ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Software Engineers

This book presents computational interaction as an approach to explaining and enhancing the interaction between humans and information technology. Computational interaction applies abstraction, automation, and analysis to inform our understanding of the structure of interaction and also to inform the design of the software that drives new and exciting human-computer interfaces. The methods of computational interaction allow, for example, designers to identify user interfaces that are optimal against some objective criteria. They also allow software engineers to build interactive systems that adapt their behaviour to better suit individual capacities and preferences. Embedded in an iterative design process, computational interaction has the potential to complement human strengths and provide methods for generating inspiring and elegant designs. Computational interaction does not exclude the messy and complicated behaviour of humans, rather it embraces it by, for example, using models that are sensitive to uncertainty and that capture subtle variations between individual users. It also promotes the idea that there are many aspects of interaction that can be augmented by algorithms. This book introduces computational interaction design to the reader by exploring a wide range of computational interaction techniques, strategies and methods. It explains how techniques such as optimisation, economic modelling, machine learning, control theory, formal methods, cognitive models and statistical language processing can be used to model interaction and design more expressive, efficient and versatile interaction.

Interaction Per Se

2010 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mikael Wiberg
Keyword(s):  
User Interfaces ◽  
Interaction Design ◽  
Design Space ◽  
Systems Design ◽  
Graphical User Interfaces ◽  
Interactive Systems ◽  
User Centered Design ◽  
Core Concept ◽  
It Use ◽  
Ambient Systems

Interaction is a core concept in the fields of Ubiquitous computing, Ambient systems design, and generally in the fields of HCI and Interaction Design. Despite this, a lack of knowledge about the fundamental character of interaction still exists. Researchers have explored interaction from the viewpoints of user-centered design and design of graphical user interfaces, where interaction stands for the link between technology and humans or denotes the use aspect. A framework is proposed for exploring interaction as a design space in itself between a human and the technology. It is proposed that this framework for interaction as a design space for Interaction Design, in which the very form of the in-between, the interaction, be explicitly targeted. It is an opportunity to go beyond user and usability studies to seek answers to fundamental questions concerning the form and character of interaction as implemented in today’s interactive systems. Moreover, this framework is an opportunity to expand and explain a new design space for Interaction Design. The proposed framework, anchored in two exemplifying cases, illustrates the character and the form of interaction as it situates itself in online, ubiquitous and everyday IT use.

Introduction

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaojun Bi ◽  
Andrew Howes ◽  
Per Ola Kristensson ◽  
Antti Oulasvirta ◽  
John Williamson
Keyword(s):  
Information Visualization ◽  
User Interfaces ◽  
Graphic Design ◽  
Interaction Design ◽  
Human Interaction ◽  
Learning Design ◽  
Human Factors Engineering ◽  
Interaction Techniques ◽  
Iterative Design ◽  
And Control

This chapter introduces the field of computational interaction, and explains its long tradition of research on human interaction with technology that applies to human factors engineering, cognitive modelling, artificial intelligence and machine learning, design optimization, formal methods, and control theory. It discusses how the book as a whole is part of an argument that, embedded in an iterative design process, computational interaction design has the potential to complement human strengths and provide a means to generate inspiring and elegant designs without refuting the part played by the complicated, and uncertain behaviour of humans. The chapters in this book manifest intellectual progress in the study of computational principles of interaction, demonstrated in diverse and challenging applications areas such as input methods, interaction techniques, graphical user interfaces, information retrieval, information visualization, and graphic design.

scholarly journals Tangibly understanding intangible complexities: Designing for distributed autonomous organizations

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-63 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bettina Nissen ◽  
Ella Tallyn ◽  
Kate Symons
Keyword(s):  
Distributed Systems ◽  
Interaction Design ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Interactive Systems ◽  
Collaborative Practice ◽  
The Internet ◽  
The Face ◽  
Future Technologies ◽  
The Internet Of Things

Abstract New digital technologies such as Blockchain and smart contracting are rapidly changing the face of value exchange, and present new opportunities and challenges for designers. Designers and data specialists are at the forefront of exploring new ways of exchanging value, using Blockchain, cryptocurrencies, smart contracting and the direct exchanges between things made possible by the Internet of Things (Tallyn et al. 2018; Pschetz et al. 2019). For researchers and designers in areas of Human Computer Interaction (HCI) and Interaction Design to better understand and explore the implications of these emerging and future technologies as Distributed Autonomous Organisations (DAOs) we delivered a workshop at the ACM conference Designing Interactive Systems (DIS) in Edinburgh in 2017 (Nissen et al. 2017). The workshop aimed to use the lens of DAOs to introduce the principle that products and services may soon be owned and managed collectively and not by one person or authority, thus challenging traditional concepts of ownership and power. This workshop builds on established HCI research exploring the role of technology in financial interactions and designing for the rapidly changing world of technology and value exchange (Kaye et al. 2014; Malmborg et al. 2015; Millen et al. 2015; Vines et al. 2014). Beyond this, the HCI community has started to explore these technologies beyond issues of finance, money and collaborative practice, focusing on the implications of these emerging but rapidly ascending distributed systems in more applied contexts (Elsden et al. 2018a). By bringing together designers and researchers with different experiences and knowledge of distributed systems, the aim of this workshop was two-fold. First, to further understand, develop and critique these new forms of distributed power and ownership and second, to practically explore how to design interactive products and services that enable, challenge or disrupt existing and emerging models.

Verification of Plastic Interactive Systems

i-com ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Raquel Oliveira ◽  
Sophie Dupuy-Chessa ◽  
Gaëlle Calvary
Keyword(s):  
Power Plant ◽  
User Interfaces ◽  
Nuclear Power ◽  
Interactive Systems ◽  
System Model ◽  
Equivalence Checking ◽  
The Past ◽  
Different Levels ◽  
Formal Techniques

AbstractInteractive systems have largely evolved over the past years. Nowadays, different users can interact with systems on different devices and in different environments. The user interfaces (UIs) are expected to cope with such variety. Plastic UIs have the capacity to adapt to changes in their context of use while preserving usability. Such capability enhances UIs, however, it adds complexity on them. We propose an approach to verifying interactive systems considering this adaptation capability of the UIs. The approach applies two formal techniques: model checking, to the verification of properties over the system model, and equivalence checking, to compare different versions of a UI, thereby identifying different levels of UI equivalence. We apply the approach to a case study in the nuclear power plant domain in which several UI are analyzed, properties are verified, and the level of equivalence between them is demonstrated.

scholarly journals Insights into the Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms That Govern the Fracture-Healing Process: A Narrative Review

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (16) ◽  
pp. 3554
Author(s):  
Dionysios J. Papachristou ◽  
Stavros Georgopoulos ◽  
Peter V. Giannoudis ◽  
Elias Panagiotopoulos
Keyword(s):  
Fracture Healing ◽  
Bone Repair ◽  
Molecular Mechanisms ◽  
Current Knowledge ◽  
Healing Process ◽  
Bone Architecture ◽  
Multi Stage ◽  
Stage Process ◽  
And Function ◽  
The Impact

Fracture-healing is a complex multi-stage process that usually progresses flawlessly, resulting in restoration of bone architecture and function. Regrettably, however, a considerable number of fractures fail to heal, resulting in delayed unions or non-unions. This may significantly impact several aspects of a patient’s life. Not surprisingly, in the past few years, a substantial amount of research and number of clinical studies have been designed, aiming at shedding light into the cellular and molecular mechanisms that regulate fracture-healing. Herein, we present the current knowledge on the pathobiology of the fracture-healing process. In addition, the role of skeletal cells and the impact of marrow adipose tissue on bone repair is discussed. Unveiling the pathogenetic mechanisms that govern the fracture-healing process may lead to the development of novel, smarter, and more effective therapeutic strategies for the treatment of fractures, especially of those with large bone defects.

scholarly journals Epigenetic and transcriptional regulation of osteoclastogenesis in the pathogenesis of skeletal diseases: a protocol for a systematic review

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dr Siddhartha Sharma ◽  
Dr Anupam Mittal ◽  
Aditi Mahajan ◽  
Riddhi Gohil
Keyword(s):  
Rheumatoid Arthritis ◽  
Systematic Review ◽  
Genetic Material ◽  
Transcriptional Regulators ◽  
Osteoclast Formation ◽  
Micro Rna ◽  
Epigenetic Changes ◽  
Multi Stage ◽  
Stage Process ◽  
Skeletal Disorders

Osteoclastogenesis (OCG) is a multi-stage process that involves formation of activated osteoclasts from bone marrow macrophages. The progression of each stage of OCG is governed by a set of transcription factors and gene regulators, which are genetically and epigenetically regulated at both transcription and post-transcription levels. Epigenetic changes are used to denote interactions between genetic material and environment leading to phenotypic alterations that can be inherited, without any variations in DNA sequence. Epigenetic and transcription regulatory events have profound effects on osteoclast formation and activation; these have been implicated in numerous disorders including osteoporosis, osteopetrosis, rheumatoid arthritis, spondyloarthritis, gout and bone metastasis. We aim to conduct a systematic review to assess possible relationship between key epigenetic and transcriptional regulators of osteoclastogenesis, and their role in specific bone disorders. This is a protocol for the proposed review. Keywords: osteoclasts; osteoclastogenesis; epigenetics; transcription; bone; skeletal disorders; methylation; histone proteins; micro RNA

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