“Our conception of the interface is not restricted to the well-known graphical user interface between humans and computers, e.g. the WIMP (Windows, Icons, Menus, Pointers) interfaces that have become popular and standardised on personal computers the last twenty-five years. As described by Florian Cramer in this volume, the term interface indicates many different contact points and exchanges between different programs and data layers in a computer, between different machines (e.g. in a network), between humans and machines (such as graphical user interfaces), and as a mediator between humans (e.g. in net culture, interface culture and the public sphere). Some interfaces seem more or less mechanical – such as the USB interface that most of us know as a plug, but which is in fact an interface that specifies how communication between devices is established – while others are more clearly directed towards human understanding and cultural traditions such as interfaces for computer games or digital art. All interfaces, however, are designs that combine – and translate – signs and signals”
Interface CriticismAesthetics Beyond Buttons (edited by Christian Ulrik Andersen & Søren Bro Pold)
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