Quotes About Interaction

She smiled blankly at me. 'I love your dress,' I said, the universal smoother for two women who have absolutely nothing to say to each other.

I could easily become one of those people who so crave human contact that they talk inappropriately to other passengers on trains or spend ten minutes picking things in a shop so they can chat to the assistant. I

the answer was no, whatever her query was, except for those bits to which his answer was yes

Interaction Designers, however, are required to balance issues of form with issues of time: An interaction occurs in the fourth dimension, and simply attending to aesthetics does not take into account the unfolding experience that a user has with a product.

Design is about humanizing technology or finding ways for technology to integrate into the fabric of our culture.

network effect." Every new person who joins or starts using the service makes it much more valuable to everyone else on the service.

Interaction Design is the creation of a dialogue between a person and a product, system, or service. This dialogue is both physical and emotional in nature and is manifested in the interplay between form, function, and technology as experienced over time.

The Internet is just a world passing around notes in a classroom.

The internet is just a world passing notes around a classroom.

Body Orientation When someone does approach and speak to you, pay careful attention to the extent to which you face that person. Facing someone directly communicates an interest in him or her, while turning the body away indicates a desire to avoid interaction. Similarly, when you are talking to someone, watch to see whether his or her body is facing you, indicating an interest in interacting, or turning away in an attempt to avoid the conversation.

We say, 'Shall we meet for a drink?', as though drinking were the main end of the appointment, and the matter of company only incidental, we are so shy about admitting our need for one another. [...] We say, 'Would you like to come for some coffee?', as though it were less frightening to acknowledge that we are heavily dependent on mildly stimulating drinks, than to acknowledge that we are at all dependent on the companionship of other people.

Gossip is a policeman and a teacher. Without it, there would be chaos and ignorance.

In other words, under normal circumstances the rider takes its cue from the elephant, just as a lawyer takes instructions from a client. But if you force the two to sit around and chat for a few minutes, the elephant actually opens up to advice from the rider and arguments from outside sources. Intuitions come first, and under normal circumstances they cause us to engage in socially strategic reasoning, but there are ways to make the relationship more of a two-way street.

who is nice to them. Puppies can do that too. But these findings suggest that by six months of age, infants are watching how people behave toward other people, and they are developing a preference for those who are nice rather than those who are mean.

Gossip is a policeman and a teacher. Without it, there would be chaos and ignorance.22

But if you put individuals together in the right way, such that some individuals can use their reasoning powers to disconfirm the claims of others, and all individuals feel some common bond or shared fate that allows them to interact civilly, you create a group that ends up producing good reasoning as an emergent property of the social system. This is why it's so important to have intellectual & ideological diversity.

what we just saw between Fellinger

As soon as a new form of communication arises, people will find a way to use it to embarrass themselves. Call it Zuckerberg's Law.

booth. The other two women face them.

The science of psychotherapy is knowing what to say, the art is knowing when to say it. (36)

Enough of this. Does every conversation with you have to be the director's cut? Get out of the car.

Ve?er u stolu muži probírali akce, vypráv?li si historky, porovnávali si zkušenosti, n?kte?í smutn?, jiní vesele. Jiní ml?eli, a práv? na ty bylo t?eba dát pozor.

tenait à bras-le-corps. Callsen prit la parole : « Bon, je pense que vous

That's got to be Nix," Benny said as he pulled the door open. "Hey, sweetie..." Morgie Mitchell and Lou Chong stood on the black porch. "Um," said Chong, "hello to you, too, sugar lumps.