On Dueling Interaction Models of Personal-Computing and Web-Computing
This is James with some overlapping documents at his desk.
Today the user of personal computers is facing several inconsistencies which originate from an unresolved situation between two competing interaction models. The WIMP desktop model was developed nearly 30 years ago at Xerox Parc and Apple Computer. The web model became popular in the mid 1990s and has profoundly changed business and the perception of social relationships. Contradictions between these two models have a severe negative impact on human-computer interaction.
Slides and more info at www.mprove.de/script/07/reboot9/duel.html
