{"id":354,"date":"2003-09-23T00:59:29","date_gmt":"2003-09-23T04:59:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/vgondi\/2003\/09\/23\/learning-from-games\/"},"modified":"2012-04-29T10:50:24","modified_gmt":"2012-04-29T14:50:24","slug":"learning-from-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/vgondi\/2003\/09\/23\/learning-from-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Learning from games:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a486'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Peter Seebach: <a href=\"http:\/\/www-106.ibm.com\/developerworks\/library\/us-cranky17.html?n-us-742\">&#8220;Everything I need to know about usability, I learned at the arcade&#8221;.<\/a> The article says games are better at Streamlining, Reliability, Approachability, Adapting to the user and Managing Resources. I think, all interfaces can be split into two parts, visualization and navigation. The objects in a page are shown and interactions are made possible to make the task easier and these pages are linked up through contextual navigation. Interface visualizations have a lot to learn from game interactions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Seebach: &#8220;Everything I need to know about usability, I learned at the arcade&#8221;. The article says games are better at Streamlining, Reliability, Approachability, Adapting to the user and Managing Resources. I think, all interfaces can be split into two parts, visualization and navigation. The objects in a page are shown and interactions are made [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1172,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/vgondi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/vgondi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/vgondi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/vgondi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1172"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/vgondi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=354"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/vgondi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":852,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/vgondi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354\/revisions\/852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/vgondi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/vgondi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/vgondi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}