VOCABULARY

HUMAN-CENTRED DESIGN• Where the end users needs are given extensive consideration

throughout each stage of the design process.

BeneficiariesArtefact

Evaluation

WHY IT MATTERS

• Within interaction design:

• helps the product to be more beneficial to the user

• User feedback influences the design and purpose

INPUT DEVICE• Any peripheral hardware that provides data and control

signals for the computer to act upon.

WHY IT MATTERS

• Within interaction design:

• Webcams allow a visual interaction with family and friends

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SHOOGLE

• “Shoogle is a novel, intuitive interface for sensing data within a mobile device, such as presence and properties of text messages or remaining resources. It is based around active exploration: devices are shaken, revealing the contents rattling around "inside".”

• http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~jhw/shoogle/index.html

WHY IT MATTERS

• Within interaction design:

• Completely natural action

• Non-visual

• Multimodal

RAM

• Stands for “Random-access memory”

• Volatile (information is lost if power if removed unless saved)

• Form of computer data storage

WHY IT MATTERS

• Within interaction design:

• Can have several applications running at once

• Can flick backwards and forwards between different things, for example a word document with ideas and a photoshop file.

E-INK

• Electronic ink is a liquid substance, in development at MIT's Media Lab in partnership with a company called E Ink, that responds to electrical impulses to enable changeable text and image displays on a flexible surface.

• Used for ebooks

WHY IT MATTERS

• Within interaction design:

• Allows the ink to change on screen

• Easy to read

• Portable

ERGONOMICS

• The study of designing equipment and devices that fit the human body and it’s movements.

• Aim to improve computer related injuries such as RSI

WHY IT MATTERS

• Within interaction design:

• Allows designers to work for longer without getting any symptoms

• Allows efficient use of input devices