Abstract
What is interaction design? Some authors define it as “the design of interactive products that are able to support humans in their own working activities and in everyday life”. Consider how many interactive products we deal with in a typical day: mobile phones, computers, personal organisers, remote controls, soft drink machines, coffee machines, ATMs, railway and bus ticket machines, the Web, photocopiers, alarm watches, digital cameras, camcorders, printers, media centres, iPods, VCRs, car navigation systems, calculators, video games... the list is endless! Now consider how usable they are. How many of these products are actually easy and enjoyable to use? All of them, several, or simply one or two? This list is probably pretty short. Why is this the case?
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(2009). Interaction Design. In: eCulture. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-75276-9_12
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