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Take a Chance on Me: Using Randomness for the Design of Digital Devices

Randomness has long beguiled and fascinated human beings. It is widely used as a powerful computational resource, as mathematicians and scientists use it to encrypt, model, and predict. Artists, on the other hand, have recognized randomness’s versatility and ability to provoke, seed, and capture our imagination. They exploit the ephemeral qualities of randomness, utilizing them as creative tools to produce innovative artistic output. For interaction designers, randomness can be used to enrich designed user experiences …

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