Interactivity in the Context of Designed Experiences
Carrie Heeter Michigan State University in San Francisco
THE MUDDLE: COMMON USES OF INTERACT AND INTERACTIVE
Interactivity is an overused, underdefined concept. Everything a human does to or with another human can be called an interaction. Human interactions that use media are mediated human interactions. Everything a human does to or with a computer is a human-computer interaction.
The curriculum development group of the ACM Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction (www.acm.org/sigchi/cdg/) suggests, there is currently no agreed upon definition of the range of topics which form the area of...