Research Article

The Influence of Coauthorship in the Interpretation of Multimodal Interfaces

Table 1

List of design suggestions that we elaborated from related work. These suggestions were offered to the codesign participants as design material to stimulate idea generation and constitute the boundaries of our intervention in the design process.

Design suggestions Source

Stimulate new interpretations by purposefully blocking expected ones.[11]
Offer unaccustomed roles to encourage imagination.[15]
Do not make everything in the system have a fixed meaning, but include elements where users can add their own meanings.[5]
Use randomness as a creative tool used to generate interesting content leaving the users interpret the output.[18]
Gradually unfold new opportunities for interpretation over the course of interaction.[11]
Frustrate any consistent interpretation.[11]
Bringing together disparate contexts to create a tension that must be resolved.[15]
Set false expectations by demonstrating intended interactions and resetting expectations.[36]
Offering unaccustomed roles to encourage imagination.[15]