Spaces of interaction

Benyon, David; Hook, Kristina; Nigay, Laurence

Abstract

As the world becomes increasingly computationally enabled, so our view of human-computer interaction (HCI) needs to evolve. The proliferation of wireless connectivity and mobile devices in all their various forms moves people from being outside a computer and interacting with it to being inside an information space and moving through it. Sensors on the body, wearable computers, wireless sensor networks, increasingly believable virtual characters and speech-based systems are all contributing to new interactive environments. New forms of interaction such as gesture and touch are rapidly emerging and interactions involving emotion and a real sense of presence are beginning. These are the new spaces of interaction we need to understand, design and engineer. Most importantly these new forms of interaction are fundamentally embodied. Older views of a disembodied cognition need to be replaced with an understanding of how people with bodies live in and move through spaces of interaction

Citation

Benyon, D., Hook, K., & Nigay, L. (2010). Spaces of interaction. In Proceedings of the 2010 ACM-BCS Visions of Computer Science Conference (1-7)

• Conference Name: ACM-BCS Visions of Computer Science 2010 International Academic Research Conference
• Conference Location: The University of Edinburgh
• Start Date: Apr 14, 2010
• End Date: Apr 16, 2010
• Publication Date: Apr 14, 2010
• Deposit Date: Jun 29, 2010
• Publicly Available Date: Jun 29, 2010
• Publisher: BCS Learning & Development Ltd.
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Pages: 1-7
• Book Title: Proceedings of the 2010 ACM-BCS Visions of Computer Science Conference
• ISBN: 9781450301923
• Keywords: Human-Computer Interaction; Interaction Design; Navigation of Information Space; gesture; emotion; presence; software architecture
• Public URL: http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/3753