Baroque Technology

Authors:
Jan Borchers
Affiliations:
RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Venue:
AH '08 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-Based Systems
Year:
2008

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Abstract

As new interactive systems evolve, they frequently hit a sweet spot: A few new tricks to learn, and users gets tremendous benefits, simplifying their lives. But beyond that lies the dark phase of baroque technology: increasing complexity with little payoff. We will look at examples for both sweet-spot and baroque interactive technologies, from GPS devices to window systems, find out how to identify each kind, and become better interaction designers in the process.