Affordance

The affordances of the environment are what it offers the animal, what it provides or furnishes, either for good or ill... It implies the complementarity of the animal and the environment.

James Gibson, The Ecological Approach to Visual Perception (1979)
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Rethinking HCI Education for the Era of AI

dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1...

Four challenges:
- Respond to the changing fundaments of interaction
- Focus teaching on time-enduring principles
- Introduce HCI as an applied science
- Embrace integrative concepts for interdisciplinarity

Unreal Engine 5 is not just a performance problem, it is a UX problem

medium.com/@raphaelhori...

Creating a (near-)realistic digital world and creating something digitally that can be realized in the physical world are two very very different things.

Bertrand paradox: consider an equilateral triangle that is inscribed in a circle. Suppose a chord of the circle is chosen at random. What is the probability that the chord is longer than a side of the triangle?

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Thinking about the "workable" space:
- screen: 2D with a clear set of boundaries + potential infinite depth inwards
- VR: 3D
- AR: the environment that can be augmented onto. So the visible surface of the 3D space projected to 2D?

HABA-MABA principle (humans are better at - machines are better at)
Paul Fitts 1951

ambient computing?

Computational Public Space. A talk about a values-driven approach to integrating computation into cities. (40 min)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PixP...

Language is convincing.
Seeing is believing.
Touching is reality.

Alan Kay

designing interactions, 2007