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Staying open to interpretation: engaging multiple meanings in design and evaluation

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Phoebe Sengers,

Bill GaverAuthors Info & Claims

DIS '06: Proceedings of the 6th conference on Designing Interactive systems

Pages 99 - 108

https://doi.org/10.1145/1142405.1142422

Published: 26 June 2006 Publication History

Abstract

Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) often focuses on how designers can develop systems that convey a single, specific, clear interpretation of what they are for and how they should be used and experienced. New domains such as domestic and public environments, new influences from the arts and humanities, and new techniques in HCI itself are converging to suggest that multiple, potentially competing interpretations can fruitfully co-exist. In this paper, we lay out the contours of the new space opened by a focus on multiple interpretations, which may more fully address the complexity, dynamics and interplay of user, system, and designer interpretation. We document how design and evaluation strategies shift when we abandon the presumption that a specific, authoritative interpretation of the systems we build is necessary, possible or desirable.

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DIS '06: Proceedings of the 6th conference on Designing Interactive systems

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DOI:10.1145/1142405

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