Interaction Design in the Active and Assistive Living Field of Practice

Abstract

The design process of interactive systems is a multifaceted process that can lead to various forms of manifestations. Designers can draw on different interaction design styles to realize the intended, to-be designed interactive system and the corresponding HCI artifacts. This work identifies and investigates different interaction design styles based on concrete prototypes that have been designed, developed and evaluated in co-funded research project in the Active and Assisted Living domain. In total, the work presents 12 concrete prototypes which have been implemented between 2011 and 2018 and list 8 designable interaction design styles. The work lists identifies main characteristics and elaborates their relationships and dependencies which serve as basis for the future extensive research work that questions the impact of different interaction design styles on the targeted end users supposed to use the intended, to-be designed interactive system.