This article presents a critical review of patterns and pattern languages in human-computer
interaction (HCI). In recent years, patterns and pattern languages have received …

A community of practice has recently been defined as “a flexible group of professionals,
informally bound by common interests, who interact through interdependent tasks guided by …

Augmented/Virtual Reality (AR/VR) is still a fragmented space to design for due to the
rapidly evolving hardware, the interdisciplinarity of teams, and a lack of standards and best …

To create successful interactive systems, user interface designers need to cooperate with
developers and application domain experts in an interdisciplinary team. These groups …

Privacy is the most often-cited criticism of ubiquitous computing, and may be the greatest
barrier to its long-term success. However, developers currently have little support in …

Designing Collaborative Systems: A Practical Guide to Ethnography introduces a
new'ethnographic'approach that will enable designers to create collaborative and interactive …

A central challenge in interaction design has to do with its diversity. Designers, engineers,
managers, marketers, researchers and users all have important contributions to make to the …

We propose that Christopher Alexander's idea of design patterns can benefit the emerging
field of HRI. We first discuss four features of design patterns that appear particularly useful …

Design patterns are a format for capturing and sharing design knowledge. In this paper, we
look at a new domain for design patterns, namely ubiquitous computing. The overall goal of …

Good usability of a system is the main goal of interface designers. Determining the usability
is usually done afterwards by performing usability tests with users or by going through …