Jun Rekimoto
Hitomi Tsujita
ABSTRACT
While most traditional user interfaces are intended to pursue "convenience" by eliminating user operations and by typically automating tasks, some new categories of HCI, such as health support, may require explicit human participation and effort to achieve long-term benefits. In these areas, interfaces that require interactions that promote users to perform explicit activities, rather than interfaces that solely perform tasks on behalf of users, are becoming increasingly important. This trend can be a further challenge of interaction design, and we refer it as "inconvenient interactions". In this paper, we discuss why carefully designed inconveniences can enrich our lives, and provide preliminary but concrete examples. We also propose our guidelines for the design of these inconvenient interactions.
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Index Terms
- Inconvenient interactions: an alternative interaction design approach to enrich our daily activities
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