Design of interaction system 1
Design of interaction system
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Computer Science notes
This minisite contains notes taken by Chris Northwood whilst studying Computer
Science at the University of York between 2005-09 and the University of Sheffield 2009-
10.
They are published here in case others find them useful, but I provide no warranty for
their accuracy, completeness or whether or not they are up-to-date.
The contents of this page have dubious copyright status, as great portions of some of
my revision notes are verbatim from the lecture slides, what the lecturer wrote on the
board, or what they said. Additionally, lots of the images have been captured from the
lecture slides.
Interactive Systems
At its broadest, an interactive system can be any technology intended to help people
complete a teask and acheive their goals, however this could include things like pens,
which could help acheive the goal of leaving a message for a friend, so we tighten this
definition to be any technology incorporating some form of electronic logic designed to
help people complete tasks/acheive goals.
Alternatively, we could define this as any complex system with a UI. That is, something
we need to give instructions to and know the status of in carrying out those instructions.
These things are called systems (or artefacts), which we have dialogues with. Having
dialogues with non-humans (and other animals) is a relatively new concept over the
past 50 years.
Usability
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