William W. Gaver

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Ecological approaches to psychology suggest succinct accounts ofeasily-used artifacts. Affordances are properties of the world that are compatible with and relevant for people’s interactions. When… (More)

What in the World Do We Hear ? An Ecological Approach to Auditory Event Perception

William W. Gaver
1993

Everyday listening is the experience of hearing events in the world rather than sounds per se. In this paper, I take an ecological approach to everyday listening in order to overcome constraints on… (More)

The SonicFinder: An Interface That Uses Auditory Icons

William W. Gaver
Human-Computer Interaction
1989

The appropriate use of nonspeech sounds has the potential to add a great deal to the functionality of computer interfaces. Sound is a largely unexploited medium of output, even though it plays an… (More)

Auditory Icons: Using Sound in Computer Interfaces

William W. Gaver
Human-Computer Interaction
1986

Carroll and Campbell have exercised themselves over a straw man not subscribed to by us. In doing so, they have misrepresented our position and even the statements in our paper. In reply, we restate… (More)

Ambiguity as a resource for design

William W. Gaver, Jacob Beaver, Steve Benford
CHI
2003

Ambiguity is usually considered anathema in Human Computer Interaction. We argue, in contrast, that it is a resource for design that can be used to encourage close personal engagement with systems.… (More)

Staying open to interpretation: engaging multiple meanings in design and evaluation

Phoebe Sengers, William W. Gaver
Conference on Designing Interactive Systems
2006

Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) often focuses on how designers can develop systems that convey a single, specific, clear interpretation of what they are for and how they should be used and… (More)

Design: Cultural probes

William W. Gaver, Anthony Dunne, Elena Pacenti
Interactions
1999

A As the local site coordinator finished his introduction to the meeting, our worries were increasing. The group had taken on a glazed look, showing polite interest, but no real enthusiasm. How would… (More)

What should we expect from research through design?

In this essay, I explore several facets of research through design in order to contribute to discussions about how the approach should develop. The essay has three parts. In the first, I review two… (More)

Realizing a Video Environment: EuroPARC's RAVE System

William W. Gaver, Thomas P. Moran, +4 authors William Buxton
CHI
1992

At EuroPARC, we have been exploring ways to allow physically separated colleagues to work together effectively and naturally. In this paper, we briefly discuss several examples of our work in the… (More)

Cultural probes and the value of uncertainty

William W. Gaver, Andy Boucher, Sarah Pennington, Brendan Walker
Interactions
2004

<b><i>When reason is away, smiles will play. --- Paul Eluard and Benjamin Péret</i></b>

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