My masters thesis entitied "Anticipatory Design: Interaction for Managing and Understanding Complex Systems" was completed May 8, 2007. It began to catalyze interaction design, well-being, learning, belief infrastructures, and technology into a holistic design framework. I'm still researching anticipatory design, and the following represents my first attempts at working through these concepts as a framework and eventually a platform for interaction design.

Anticipatory design is a conceptual framework for designing interactions that utilizes anticipation to make complex systems feel manageable and understandable. By blending relevant information from multiple systems into an anticipator’s immediate context, anticipatory design generates divergent, non-sequential, and context-specific information that extends the range of an anticipator’s curiosities.

Anticipators are context-oriented learners who make nimble decisions and have agency within social systems to simulate, role-play, and option-play anytime anywhere with anyone. They are inventors who learn by improvising in authentic contexts, as well as by shifting among complex systems in real-time through anticipatory designs. In this sense, every moment is a learning experience for self-knowing and sharing experiences.

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