Connecting with Users though Interactive Prototyping: Understanding User Behaviourthrough Building the Black Box and its Electronic Innards

Interaction design creates new challenges for the researcher, educator and student. Certainly, the “look„ of an interaction system falls within the purview of visual communication design; however, the correlating area of “feel„ is fairly new territory for designers. The term “feel„ acknowledges that information being relayed extends beyond the realm of vision; the most interactive experiences depend on multiple senses and feedback process: gaze, aural, gesture, touch, haptic, biometrics (heart rate, pulse...).