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Abstract

Thierry Bardini: Inventing the Virtual User. In: Bootstrapping. Stanford University Press, 2000.

1. Introduction
   • computer interface design is an ad hoc discipline (Brenda Laurel)
   • many people today equate the interface with the screen
   • but several models of the interface emerged through time
2. Problem of the Interface
   • Brenda Laurel > Computers as Theater
   • simplistic model of interface as rectangle between user and computer
   • person's mental model of computer and computer's understanding of person
   • conceptual interface > user and computer need understanding of each other
   • simpler concept of interface > how humans and computers interct