TY - JOUR AU - Gaver, Bill AB - Staying Open to Interpretation: Engaging Multiple Meanings in Design and Evaluation Phoebe Sengers Cornell Information Science and Science & Technology Studies Ithaca, NY 14850 USA sengers@cs.cornell.edu ABSTRACT Bill Gaver Goldsmiths College University of London New Cross, London, SE14 6NW UK w.gaver@goldsmiths.ac.uk likewise, to accurately identify emotions computers express [e.g. 33]. While interpretation has always been a key issue in HCI, it has not always been foregrounded as such. In part, this may be because, as disparate as the areas of HCI that handle interpretational issues are, they often share a unified underlying stance on interpretation that circumscribes both the problem of interpretation and its presumed solution. While different areas disagree on whose interpretation (e.g., the users ™ or the designers ™) should be privileged, there is general agreement that there should be a single, correct way to interpret a computer system (e.g. how it works or the emotion it should exhibit or engender), and that the goal of the system ™s designer should be to convey that interpretation accurately to its users. Interpretation is then understood to be causing a problem when users and designers disagree about the meaning to assign to a system ™s operations, functions, or TI - Staying open to interpretation: engaging multiple meanings in design and evaluation DA - 2006-06-26 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/association-for-computing-machinery/staying-open-to-interpretation-engaging-multiple-meanings-in-design-fFB7HsuaoB DP - DeepDyve ER -