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Human-computer interaction

the deliberate use of ambiguity of information, context or relationship in a design to invite people to interpret it for themselves.

In human-computer interaction, ambiguity as a resource for design refers to the deliberate use of ambiguity of information, context or relationship in a design to invite people to interpret it for themselves. This meaning comes from Gaver (2003) in Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.[1]

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Gaver, W. W., Beaver, J., & Benford, S. (2003). Ambiguity as a resource for design. Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. https://doi.org/10.1145/642611.642653

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