Comments on Interaction 09 Follow-up

Amjad Khan — Thu, 28 May 2009 22:17:40 GMT

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Uday Gajendar — Mon, 04 May 2009 21:21:51 GMT

Thanks for the nice summary! I agree, this new-found awareness of the possibilities of expanding IxD’s influence into new domains is very exciting and, at least in my view, long overdue, per Dave’s comment of going beyond “The Valley” definition. Just ask any IxD grad from CMU or IIT or Stanford :-)

Indeed, back in 2006 I briefly illustrated as a short poster “new” areas of application of IxD methods, which readers may find useful: http://bit.ly/H1KZ7

And for a very ambitious attempt at understanding in visual form the expansive range of influence from 2D to 3D to n-dimensional wicked problems of increasing scope, check out this “design typology poster” based upon Richard Buchanan’s Four Orders Model: http://bit.ly/102xI7

-uday

David Malouf — Mon, 04 May 2009 21:03:37 GMT

Hi Whitney,
I think one thing happening in our community might be differently stated than “growing” is that the community is becoming more inclusive of other spheres of interaction design than where we started. Our beginning was squarely on interaction design as defined by “The Valley”, but today European perspectives from RCA, Copenhagen, Italy, etc. have been gaining momentum in the community. This perceived “growth” of sphere is less a redefinition of IxD, but rather IxD working towards connecting its various incarnations.

—dave