Interactivity in the Context of Designed Experiences

Interactivity is something researchers study, new technology commercials promote, and designers create.
  

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...

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