What are the attributes to consider when designing applications for real world? By Fabien Girardin

1. Embracing the real
world’s messiness
Fabien Girardin
Pompeu Fabra University
Interactive Technology Group

4. seamlessness, invisibility, calmness,
“ambient intelligence”

5. “cloud of connectivity”

6. automatic doors
picture: temp13rec.

8. the world is messy

9. infrastructures break down

10. heterogeneity

11. heterogeneity

12. Eboy
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co-existence of technologies

13. ownership

14. ownership

15. uncertainty
inaccuracy of physical sensing and the ambiguity of
references
complex and dynamic technical problems related to
bandwidth, power, latency, disconnection, and so forth
mismatch between what can be sensed and what is
expected create uncertainty

16. unpredictability

17. cultural bias

19. seamful design
revealing the “seams” (limits,
boundaries, uncertainty)
embraces the messiness of
everyday life
know when to reveal or hide the
imperfections
Chalmers, M., and Galani, A. Seamful interweaving: heterogeneity in
the theory and design of interactive systems. In DIS ’04: Proceedings
of the 2004 conference on Designing interactive systems (New York,
NY, USA, 2004), ACM Press, pp. 243–252.

20. seamfulness

21. seamfulness
picture: Ti.mo

22. design for appropriation
co-evolution with technologies is about accommodation
and appropriation
we play with noise and disorder. It is what allow us to
be in command
users as actors, not as passive recipients
configure, adapt and customize technologies
appropriation not only by simplification

23. conclusions
seamlessness is the exception
messiness and limits cannot be ignored
design technologies with that in mind
same errors as strong AI?
do we really want to live in a calm world?