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Making sense of sensing systems: five questions for designers and researchers

Authors:

Victoria Bellotti,

W. Keith Edwards,

Rebecca E. Grinter,

Austin Henderson,

Cristina LopesAuthors Info & Claims

CHI '02: Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Pages 415 - 422

https://doi.org/10.1145/503376.503450

Published: 20 April 2002 Publication History

Abstract

This paper borrows ideas from social science to inform the design of novel "sensing" user-interfaces for computing technology. Specifically, we present five design challenges inspired by analysis of human-human communication that are mundanely addressed by traditional graphical user interface designs (GUIs). Although classic GUI conventions allow us to finesse these questions, recent research into innovative interaction techniques such as 'Ubiquitous Computing' and 'Tangible Interfaces' has begun to expose the interaction challenges and problems they pose. By making them explicit we open a discourse on how an approach similar to that used by social scientists in studying human-human interaction might inform the design of novel interaction mechanisms that can be used to handle human-computer communication accomplishments

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Making sense of sensing systems: five questions for designers and researchers
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)
    1. Interaction paradigms
      1. Graphical user interfaces
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software notations and tools
    1. Development frameworks and environments
      1. Integrated and visual development environments

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