Mending fractured spaces : external legibility and seamlessness in interface design

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Zigelbaum, Jamie B
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External legibility and seamlessness in interface design
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture. Program in Media Arts and Sciences.
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Hiroshi Ishii.
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Abstract
This thesis presents External Legibility: a property of user interfaces that affects the ability of non-participating observers to understand the context of a user's actions. Claims of its value are supported with arguments from the social sciences and human-computer interaction literature; research in designing tangible user interfaces; and an experiment comparing the external legibility of four interaction techniques.
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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, School of Architecture and Planning, Program in Media Arts and Sciences, 2008.
 
Includes bibliographical references (p. 97-108).
 
Date issued
2008
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http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/46586
Department
Program in Media Arts and Sciences (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Keywords
Architecture. Program in Media Arts and Sciences.
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