Putting it all together

✍ Scribed by Bayle, Elisabeth; Moore, Brian; Potts, Colin; Skousen, Grant; Thomas, John; Bellamy, Rachel; Casaday, George; Erickson, Thomas; Fincher, Sally; Grinter, Beki; Gross, Ben; Lehder, Diane; Marmolin, Hans

• Book ID: 121811834
• Publisher: Association for Computing Machinery
• Year: 1998
• Weight: 809 KB
• Volume: 30
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0736-6906
• DOI: 10.1145/280571.280580

✦ Synopsis

Pattern languages are representations that have been used in architecture and urban designer about twenty years. They J~cus on the interaction between physical j@m and social behavior, and express design solutions in an understandable and generalizable j@m. But pattern languages are not simptv set of patterns intended to be universally applied; instead, they are actually meta-languages which, when used in a particular situations, generate situated design languages. This report describes a CHI97 workshop which explored the utility of partern languages J~r interaction design. PPb discuss the workshofi rationale, the structure and process of the workshop, and some of the workshops results. In particular, we describe some patterns developed as part of the workshop, and our consequent reflections on the use of patterns and pattern languages as lingua Jganca ~r interaction design. This report concludes with a bibliography on pattern languages and related matters that spans architecture, software design, and organizationaldesign.