Toward a Taxonomy of Interaction Design Techniques for Externalising in Creative Work.pdfVIP

To be presented at 10th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (HCII2003), Crete, Greece, June, 2003. Toward A Taxonomy of Interaction Design Techniques for Externalizing in Creative Work Kumiyo Nakakoji Yasuhiro Yamamoto RCAST, University of Tokyo and PRESTO, JST 4-6-1 Komaba, Meguro, Tokyo, 153-8904 {kumiyo, yxy}@kid.rcast.u-tokyo.ac.jp Abstract Externalizing, the act of creating and modifying an external representation, plays a crucial role in creative design work. Whether a tool supports externalizing in a designer’s desirable manner depends not only on what the tool does but also on its interaction design; how a user interacts with the tool through what representations. As an initial attempt to the development of taxonomy of interaction design techniques for tools that support externalizing, this paper examines seven tools for externalizing to illustrate why and how fine-grained interaction influences the process of externalizing. 1 Externalizing in Creative Work The goal of our research has been to design and develop conceptual frameworks and computational tools that support creative design work (Nakakoji et al. 2000)(Yamamoto et al. 2000)(Fischer, Nakakoji 1994). This paper focuses on a designer’s externalization processes, and uses a word externalizing to refer to the act of creating and modifying an external representation. Tools for externalizing provide a designer a space for the act of externalizing, supporting the designer’s creative process and amplifying their creative ability. There have been a number of studies that stress the importance of externaliz