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Notes by Alan Dix on "Smart Things: Ubiquitous Computing User Experience Design"

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Smart Things: Ubiquitous Computing User Experience Design

Notes

p.1&2

Notification collage - c.f. vfridge

p.4

Moore's law and cheap little processors

p.16

Garrett's UX layers

p.28

Le Corbusier "a house is a machine for living in"

p.31

ubicomp as "parallel universe"

p.48

"cpmputational composite"

p.48 (footnote)

information "material without qualities"

p.51

replication: "signals can be copied"

p.66

fridge as a platform

p.76

"point at things" - deixis

p.94

affordance - mis-definition from Suffar

p.93-96

conjoined physical and digital experience of Pixie Hollow and Disney clickables

p.99

Valery quote 1928 "visual or auditory images ... at a simple movement of the hand"

p.159

Halls Hierarchy of personal space

p.177

design advice for public displays