{"id":446,"date":"2007-07-09T10:25:39","date_gmt":"2007-07-09T08:25:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/archives\/2007\/07\/09\/possibility-spaces-and-algorithmic-architectures\/"},"modified":"2008-07-22T21:32:14","modified_gmt":"2008-07-22T19:32:14","slug":"possibility-spaces-and-algorithmic-architectures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/archives\/2007\/07\/09\/possibility-spaces-and-algorithmic-architectures\/","title":{"rendered":"Possibility spaces and algorithmic architectures"},"content":{"rendered":"

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One of the concepts I plan on exploring in my talk at the Euro IA Summit<\/a> in Barcelona is ‘possibility spaces’. It’s a term used by Will Wright<\/a> to describe his view of what a game can be – a space that offers multiple routes and outcomes to its explorer. That idea maps nicely with one definition of play that Zimmerman and Salen offer in Rules of Play<\/a>: ‘free movement within a rigid structure’. Some examples of possibility spaces created by Wright are the well-known games Sim City<\/a> and The Sims<\/a>. <\/p>\n

I think the idea of possibility spaces can help IA<\/abbr>s to get a firmer grip on ways to realize information spaces that are multi-dimensional and (to use a term put forward by Jesse James Garrett<\/a>) algorithmic. Algorithmic architectures according to Garrett are created ‘on the fly’ based on a set of rules (algorithms) that get their input (ideally) from user behaviour. The example he uses to explain this concept is Amazon<\/a>. <\/p>\n

I’ve found myself in several projects recently that would have benefited from an algorithmic approach. The hard thing is to explain its charms to clients and to get a unified vision of what it means across to the design team. I believe games might be a useful analogy. What do you think?<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of the concepts I plan on exploring in my talk at the Euro IA Summit in Barcelona is ‘possibility spaces’. It’s a term used by Will Wright to describe his view of what a game can be – a space that offers multiple routes and outcomes to its explorer. That idea maps nicely with … Continue reading Possibility spaces and algorithmic architectures<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[625],"tags":[14,10,274,392,320,391,259,46,13,11,168,390],"class_list":["post-446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-ia","tag-ixd","tag-jesse-james-garrett","tag-rules-of-play","tag-will-wright","tag-algorithmic-architectures","tag-games","tag-gaming","tag-information-architecture","tag-interaction-design","tag-play","tag-possibility-spaces"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=446"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":926,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446\/revisions\/926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}