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perience and the immediacy effect from psychology, and related to the direct ma- nipulation interaction style from the field of human-computer interfaces. A series of examples have been described and discussed. Based on this effort characteristics and conditions of Immediate Systems have been presented. In conclusion of the essay, the findings will be listed in short and a glimpse at future work will be given.
Initial framing of IS indicated that they embed design and implementation in situa- tions of use, overcome limitations of remote design, offer a form of direct manipula- tion interaction style, leverage the psychology of the Immediacy Effect and Flow Expe- rience. Their implementation as HiLCPS radically improves applicability of the concept.
As conditions were named that ISare meta-systems binding user and environment, provide a tight feedback loop between intention and adaptation,establish and main- tain a state of continuously available adaptivity andcan include any combination of multiple modalities, e.g. temporal, spatial, tactile, embedded, intentional or procedur- al.
IS, framed within Gibson’s original Theory of Affordances, offer the affordances to- shiftboundaries between self and environment,afford creative immediacy andafford furnishing the environment with new affordances.Additional affordancesderived from examples are awareness, guidance,intimacy, embeddedness,mastery and re-framing. Outside of the section on affordance theory, these affordances were referred to as characteristics of IS.
Future Work
The presented description of IS makes it possible to position them in history and con- temporary discourse. Itidentifies predecessors and technical as well as socio-cultural contributions and eventual pitfalls. It also makes it easier to relate the notion of IS to architectural research and praxis.
Additionally, the presented work serves as guidefor research on innovative architectur- al systems, which the author is invested in. The development of architectural systems asIS,involves the discovery of new applications and the unraveling of potential syn- ergies of emergent technologies. Inherently itinvolvesresearch into the relationship between humans and the built environment. Hence developingISin architecture is an agenda that reaches beyond mere design and performance optimization, it requires a transdisciplinary approach relying ona constructive assessment of the quantitative and qualitative impact of technological change on architecture and its users.
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Immediate Systems. Human-In-The-Loop Cyber-Physical Systemsthat Embed Design and Implementation in Situations of Use
Christian Friedrich