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Organic User Interfaces

The latest edition, June 2008, of ACM’s Communications has a bumper selection of articles about Organic User Interfaces (OUIs). Organic User Interfaces have “non-planar displays that may actively or passively change shape via analog physical inputs”. The lead article describes these major attributes of OUIs:

Input equals output: where the display is the input device
Function equals [...]

Evolving to baroque complexity

Jan Borchers wrote this article for the latest edition of Interactions magazine.
”...Sweet-spot products make your life simpler, baroque ones more complex. Sweet-spot products support you in a new way, making a previously difficult or awkward task change fundamentally. Learn just a few new things, and you get an almost magical boost in productivity, simplifying your [...]