Interaction Design @ IDC Limerick

THE TERM INTERACTION DESIGN (SOMETIMES WRITTEN AS IXD, TO DISTINGUISH IT FROM ID – INDUSTRIAL DESIGN) HAS BECOME INCREASINGLY POPULAR AMONG MEMBERS OF BOTH THE HUMANCOMPUTER INTERACTION (HCI) RESEARCH COMMUNITY AND SECTIONS OF THE INDUSTRIAL AND PRODUCT DESIGN COMMUNITIES IN RECENT YEARS. WHERE DOES THE TERM COME FROM, AND WHAT IT MEAN? WE COULD SPEND A LOT OF TIME ATTEMPTING TO ELABORATE A PERFECT DEFINITION, BUT THIS IS A DIFFICULT AND THANKLESS TASK. LET US JUST NOTE THAT IT IS GENERALLY AGREED THE TERM SEEMED TO ORIGINATE BACK IN THE MID-80'S FROM WORK BEING DONE AT THE DESIGN FIRM ID2 (NOW IDEO) BY BILL MOGGRIDGE, INTERACTING WITH THE ENGINEER/DESIGNER BILL VERPLANK, AND IT HAS SINCE BEEN POPULARIZED BY PEOPLE SUCH AS GILLIAN CRAMPTON-SMITH WHILE WORKING WITH THE COMPUTER-RELATED DESIGN SECTION OF THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF ART IN LONDON IN THE EARLY 90'S1. PERHAPS ONE OF THE