HCI Four Waves Within Different Interaction Design Examples

The several approaches available on literature regarding the origins of the universe conduct us to remove certainty concerning what we know about the world: the things (artifacts), theories, and behaviors among other effects. Making an analogy with it and some constructs of Human Computer Interaction, we face that the waves or paradigms have been concentrated on different focus, however, ontologically in intersection and complementarity with each other. To illustrate these connections, several creative design case studies, developed in different eras are described. The results and discussion about the waves characteristics, the theoretical concepts and those practical cases, will probably, take us to think better on a less bumpy road that leads to more positive user experiences.