Chapter 2: Understanding and Conceptualizing Interaction

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Below is additional material associated with the topics covered in chapter 2.


Conceptual models

David Liddle's chapter called "Design of the Conceptual Model" in T. Winograd (ed) Bringing Design to Software (1996) (pp17-31) provides a good overview. It can be found at: http://hci.stanford.edu/bds/2-liddle.html 

Classic interaction design

How IDEO's interdisciplinary team takes on the challenge of designing an innovative shopping cart.
www.google.co.uk/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=classic+interaction+design&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&redir_esc=&ei=uvPYTdbOEYm08QPt7d2DBQ

Visions of the future

HP has made a few thought-provoking visionary videos of the future of technology. One that received considerable attention was cooltown. http://www.wilcoxdesigns.com/cooltown/cooltown_html/home.htm

Another classic vision of the future was Apple's Knowledge Navigator: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5144094928842683632#