Advanced Interaction:
Principles & Ethics
Investigators: Russell Beale, Harry Daniels, William Edmondson, Bob Hendley
Fundamental issues relating to user needs, from a psychological and sociological perspective, are addressed in this work. This gathers together generic principles in usability, design, methodologies and evaluation and subjects them to fundamental questioning. We peer into the future, not knowing what we'll find - but if we like it, we may build it.
Some of this work focusses on how understanding how users interact with the internet, and then building and evaluating systems that support this identified behaviour. Currently, work is focussing on supporting searching and browsing, and on fission processes for the web.
Issues on how technology affects society - anything from SMS messaging to inappropriate use of the internet to the rights of users - are of key importance for both our understanding of how things are developing, and more critically to inform our views and the legislature on how we should manage and guide this transformation.
We are also interested in what makes interaction fun, interesting, memorable, effective, and so on - and how you can design systems to achieve these emotional responses.