Understanding Context by Andrew Hinton

Author:Andrew Hinton
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: COMPUTERS / User Interfaces
ISBN: 9781449326555
Publisher: O'Reilly Media
Published: 2014-12-01T16:00:00+00:00

Figure 13-4. The Shazam mobile app’s primary control is a big simulated button that, when touched, scans the environment for musical patterns

An on-screen button is just one way semantic information can simulate physical affordances, making them “interactive”—a word that wasn’t in prevalent use until the 1970s and 80s, when technology enabled previously inert parts of our environment to become things that, when we poked them, starting poking us back.

Interaction, and the design of interactions, largely originated with the emergence of electronic devices. And digital technology enabled those devices to richly simulate interfaces in ways that physical buttons on electrical gadgets couldn’t achieve.

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