Posts Tagged ‘adaptation’

Play in Social and Tangible Interactions

In Talks on 8 May 2009 tagged adaptation, embodied, game design, improvisation, interaction design, meaning, play, social, tangible with 2 comments

Now that the IxDA has posted a video of my presentation at Interaction 09 to Vimeo, I thought it would be a good idea to provide a little background to the talk. I had already posted the slides to SlideShare, so a full write-up doesn’t seem necessary. To provide a little context though, I will [...]

Embodied Interaction and Improvised Information Displays

In Articles on 30 July 2008 tagged adaptation, embodied interaction, hacking, hospitals, improvisation, information displays, interaction design, IxD, meaning, social, tangible with 3 comments

Recently a good friend of mine became a dad. It made me feel really old, but it also lead to an encounter with an improvised information display, which I’d like to tell you about, because it illustrates some of the things I have learnt from reading Paul Dourish’s Where the Action Is. My friend’s son [...]

Slides and Summary for ‘More Than Useful’

In Talks on 23 June 2008 tagged adaptation, conferences, customization, events, FBTB 2008, From Business to Buttons 2008, game design, GD, interaction design, IxD, personalization, play, presentations, slides with 4 comments

Update: The video and slides are now available on the conference site. The conference From Business to Buttons 2008 aimed to bring together the worlds of business and interaction design. I was there to share my thoughts on the applicability of game design concepts to interaction design. You’ll find my slides and a summary of [...]

Notes on Play, Exploration, Challenge and Learning

In Articles on 17 April 2008 tagged adaptation, challenge, Dan Saffer, difficulty, Donald Norman, exploration, flow, game design, games, gaming, GD, interaction design, IxD, learning, Matt Jones, play, rules, usability, user experience, UX with Comments Off

(My reading notes are piling up so here’s an attempt to clear out at least a few of them.) Part of the play experience of many digital games is figuring out how the damn thing works in the first place. In Rules of Play on page 210: “[…] as the player plays with FLUID, interaction [...]

Adaptive Design and Transformative Play

In Articles on 31 January 2008 tagged adaptation, adaptive design, creativity, customization, game design, games, gaming, GD, generation c, interaction design, IxD, literacy, play, transformative play with 1 comment

Allowing people to change parts of your product is playful. It has also always ‘just’ seemed like a good thing to do to me. You see this with with people who become passionate about a thing they use often: They want to take it apart, see how it works, put it back together again, maybe [...]