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XIX.4 July + August 2012
Page: 19
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Interaction with the dirty, dangerous, and dull


Authors:
Clint Heyer, Kristoffer Husøy

The environments for which interaction designers design tend to be rather benign: the office, the home. The settings are familiar to us, identifiable and relatable, often places we've experienced firsthand. A host of assumptions are implicit in these settings that affect the style of design inquiry and the forms of prototyping and evaluation. For example, we might assume a stable and safe physical environment, or that if something doesn't work, it is an annoyance rather than a life-or-death situation. In our work, we have explored quite a different context: that of an oil and gas facility, where work is…




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