Media: uiGarden on Experience Design of the Future

Norbert Streitz was at INTERACT 2005 talking on a panel about trust and the disappearing computer, where it was clear that the panellists believed people had a lot still to understand about networks and their potential.

A paper by Streitz, Carsten Magerkurth, Thorsten Prante, Carsten Röcker - all at the "AMBIENTE Smart Environments of the Future" research division at Fraunhofer IPSI, Darmstadt in Germany - gives some context to these concerns and looks at ways of distinguishing experiences meaningfully. The paper is featured on uiGarden having been originally published in the July 2005 issue of Interactions. "From Information Design to Experience Design: Smart Artefacts and the Disappearing Computer" appears on the site in Chinese as well as English.

'In order to address experience design in a more systematic fashion, we investigated and classified the different types of experiences. At a first level, we distinguish between a) direct experiences using our human senses and b) indirect and mediated experiences.

'Direct experiences are based on perception using the human senses vision, hearing, touch, respective tactile and haptic sensation, smell, taste, as well as the equilibrium sense. The indirect and mediated experiences can be more complex. Here, we distinguish between perception of “invisible” things, perception using aggregated parameters, and social experiences. The latter categories are not exclusive but have some overlaps.'

Associated Link: uiGarden: From Information Design to Experience Design: Smart Artefacts and the Disappearing Computer

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