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I was checking out Jan Borchers’ homepage. He does great stuff with HCI Patterns as part of the whole pattern language thing (see also: Martin van Welie, Thomas Erickson). I was trying to find out more about some list on HCI patterns that I seemed to have subscribed to (ui-patterns@cs.uiuc.edu) at some point.

Anywhoo, on his homepage he mentions the Stanford Interactivity Lab, which I hadn’t come across before. The Lab has a bit on their approach “to develop new devices, techniques, and theories that support the design of fluent interaction in a ubiquitous computing environment”. Hmm, fluent interaction, that’s a new one. There’s more on fluent interaction as well as their research projects.