soft switch - Nour Diab Yunes

“calm technology” (Weiser & Brown, 1996)

According the Mark Weiser and John Seely Brown (1996), "peripheral information" extends the notion of "affordances" to describe action enabling technologies that are reachable, yet on the periphery of perception and therefore encalming.

“Evaluating Usability Throughout Design and Development” – Joseph Dumas & Janice Redish

Joseph Dumas & Janice Redish analyze the potential benefits of combining various evaluation methods as complementary tools for usability testing in the context of usability engineering.

lumiere du coeur – breadboard (1)

Nova Spivak on Human-Machine Symbiosis and the Intelligence System

defining: Ubiquitous Computing

In 1991, Mark Weiser defined ubiquitous computing (which he also calls "embodied virtuality", as opposed to virtual reality) as invisible and indistinguishable from the "fabric of everyday life"; that is, from human behavior. Which is to say that ubiquitous computing aims at providing humane tools with which beings can continue dealing with their world in very much the same behavioral ways.

Terri Timely’s Synesthesia