Scaling Interaction-From Small-Scale Interaction to Architectural Scale

摘要

Smart homes, intelligent environments, interactive architecture, and human-building interaction (HBI)all come with the promise of interactivity at the scale of architecture. However, typical interaction design works at the level of the small scale and at the level of the individual-just think about the typical use case with a person in front of a laptop, or one where a person is fiddling on his or her mobile phone. At this scale, user interfaces are typically designed for an individual to operate a computational device. But what if we want to scale interaction design from the device to the building, and from the individual to the public? Put differently, how can we reimagine interaction design at architectural scale, while enabling people to interact with such large-scale interactive systems? In this article, we elaborate on scaling as a design challenge for HCI. We do this to imagine innovative solutions that might enable human-building interaction (HBI) [2]. We also do it to explore how interaction design might operate across different scales-from small-scale designs to interaction design at architectural scale.