Towards Unified Principles of Interaction

Michel Beaudouin-Lafon (1)

1 EX-SITU - Extreme Interaction

Even though today's computers are used for many different types of tasks, they still rely on user interfaces designed for office workers in the 1980s. HCI researchers have produced a slew of innovative interaction styles, from gestural interaction to mixed reality and tangible interfaces, but they have not replaced traditional GUIs. I argue that we must devise fundamental principles of interaction that unify, rather than separate, interaction styles in order to support the diversity of uses and users. I describe ongoing work on my ERC advanced grant, ONE, which explores how the concepts of information substrates and interaction instruments create digital environments that users can appropriate and (re)combine at will.

Mots clés: Information Substrates; Instrumental Interaction; Interaction Principles; Conceptual Model

Domaines: Interface homme-machine [cs.HC]

Michel Beaudouin-Lafon. Towards Unified Principles of Interaction. CHItaly 2017 - Proceedings of the 12th Biannual Conference of the Italian SIGCHI Chapter, Sep 2017, Cagliari, Italy. pp.1 - 2, ⟨10.1145/3125571.3125602⟩. ⟨hal-01614273⟩