web.2.0 is manipulation | terry winograd

winograd has this line about three basic cognitive aspects of how to interact with our surroundings: manipulation, locomotion and communication.

of course manipulation is from latin for hand and do things to objects.

the first thing users did with computers was manipulation, moving objects around, drag and drop. then came the web and in its first phase it was basically "go and have a look". the surfing metapher, winograd suggests, was accepted and understood easily as long as the web meant locomotion. now, with web 2.0 we might be back at manipulation ...

web and 2.0 (audio/mpeg, 393 KB)

communication came rather late, he says. its effective, because you tell others to do something, but its also a challenge for interaction designers and i add: yet unsolved.
communication (audio/mpeg, 199 KB)