Convergence 2.0 = Service + Social + Physical

*Written for Interactions magazine by Hugh Dubberly.* In 1980, when I was a college student, I heard Nicholas Negroponte speak about the future of computing. What stood out most was his model of convergence. Negroponte presented the model in three steps. The first slide showed the publishing, broadcasting, and computing industries as separate rings; the […]

Convergence 1.0

Convergence 2.0

Convergence Experience

Conversational Alignment—Compare to our own Model

Conversational Alignment—Mental Model of our Interlocutor’s Mental Model

Conversational Alignment—Our Mental Models are Converging

Conversational Alignment—Creating a Shared Mental Model

Conversational Alignment

*Written for Interactions magazine by Austin Henderson and Jed Harris.* People invent and revise their conversation midsentence. People assume they understand enough to converse and then simply jump in; all the while they monitor and correct when things appear to go astray from the purposes at hand. This article explores how this adaptive regime works, […]

Early Grouping of Post-it notes