Concepts of Multi-artefact Systems in Artifact Ecologies
Henrik Sørensen, Jesper Kjeldskov · VBN Forskningsportal (Aalborg Universitet) · 2014
The artifact ecologies emerging from the increasing number of interactive digital artifacts, capable of communicating with each other, have created a situation where software applications no longer need to be limited by the physical boundaries of a single artifact.In order to take advantage of the full potential of this situation, we first need to establish a common understanding of the interaction that crosses physical artifact boundaries.Eventually, this will help us understand and design multi-artifact systems that are more than the sum of its individual parts.In this paper, we analyze two multi-artifact systems from our prior work within the domain of music consumption and identify four concepts of multi-artifact interaction: Plasticity, migration, complementarity, and multi-user.We discuss the concepts in order to relate them to an artifact ecology thinking and identify implications for future work.