Introduction

Interface & Interaction Design

Interaction design is the process of creating and defining product behavior, encompassing both usability and aesthetic dimensions of an artifact, system, or environment. An interface is the link between the user and a product that communicates how a product will be used, creating an experience for the people who will use it.

This section explores issues that pertain to the design of interfaces that focus on a variety of design principles, information hierarchy and navigation, multi-modal information presentation, user-product interactions, and how these elements become part of a larger design process.

The six projects in this section include an e-business card that examines collaboration in the workplace, a system to promote parental autonomy, a conversational user interface, an in-car interface for XM radio, an intelligent social robot, and a scheduler that explores atypical interaction through physical objects.