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Kitajima & Toyota (2013)

Kitajima, M., & Toyota, M. (2013). Designing Interactions for Two Minds with the Real Brain Model "MHP/RT". A position paper presented at the workshop on "Avec le Temps! Time, Tempo, and Turns in Human-Computer Interaction" in CHI'2013.

 

Designing Interactions for Two Minds with the Real Brain Model "MHP/RT"

In the early 1980's, Card, Moran and Newell [2] proposed an architecture model, Model Human Processor, in order to simulate users interacting with then-modern workstations equipped with WIMP for the purpose of demonstrating, e.g., a GUI screen editor running on the new innovative workstation is superior to traditional line editors. Nowadays, however, interactions between users and information systems have become tremendously richer than those that MHP dealt with 30 years ago. This paper introduces a real brain model MHP/RT, Model Human Processor with Real Time constraints [7] shown in Figure 1, that is capable of simulating users of modern interaction systems. The key idea is that users are engaging in so-called the Two Minds [3, 4] processes when interacting with the modern interaction systems. This paper argues that time is the dimension to be designed well in order for the interactions to be perceived smooth and rational by the users, i.e., to be matched with the users' Two Minds processes.

 

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