Contents

Emerging Approaches to Research and Design Practice

Cover Story

Designing Games: Why and How

On Modeling

An Evolving Map of Design Practice and Design Research

The Way I See It

Signifiers, Not Affordances

Feature

User Experience Design for Ubiquitous Computing

Feature

Cultural Theory and Design: Identifying Trends by Looking at the Action in the Periphery

Lifelong Interactions

Understanding Children's Interactions: Evaluating Children's Interactive Products

Reflections On Innovation

Timelines

An Exciting Interface Foray into Early Digital Music: The Kurzweil 250

True Tales

Some Different Approaches to Making Stuff

Feature

Design: A Better Path to Innovation

Sustainably Ours

A Call for Pro-Environmental Conspicuous Consumption in the Online World

Ps and Qs

Of Candied Herbs and Happy Babies: Seeking and Searching on Your Own Terms

Cultural and Personal Impact

Feature

Experiencing the International Children's Digital Library

Feature

Taken For Granted: The Infusion of the Mobile Phone in Society

(P)Review

How Society was Forever Changed: A Review of The Mobile Connection

Under Development

Audiophoto Narratives for Semi-literate Communities

Feature

Think Before You Link: Controlling Ubiquitous Availability

(P)Review

HCI, Life and Death, and Randy Pausch

Interactions Cafe

On Mobile Communication, Cultural Norms...

Interactions - November/December 2008 Index