[IxDA Discuss] About Face 3.0: What happened to the parasitic/auxiliary posture?

[Vermette, Joan]

Interesting...

Dave's article references Cooper/Reimann's 'postures' from About Face
2.0, as 'sovereign, transient, daemonic, and parasitic...' and, since
this is very pertinent to something I'm working on, right now, I went to
About Face 3.0 to take a look at this...

I quote p. 163:

"Desktop applications fit into four categories of posture: sovereign,
transient, and daemonic."

(um...how many, gentlemen...?)

I've been looking through Chapter 9 where the topic of posture is
discussed, and I didn't find  "parasitic," anywhere.  

I then turned to my copy of About Face 2.0, and I quote from p. 103:

"Desktop applications fit into four categories of posture: sovereign,
transient, daemonic and auxiliary."

No parasitic.  Auxiliary, instead.  

A definition of the auxiliary posture is found on p. 113:

"Programs that blend the characteristics of sovereign and transient
programs exhibit auxiliary posture.  The auxiliary program is
continuously present like a sovereign, but it performs only a supporting
role."

What am I missing?  What made this fourth type of posture go away
between editions of the book?

I'm interested in this because I'm proposing different interactions
strategies within a single application, based on each content node's
posture relative to user tasks...and I'm feeling a little under fire in
my organization with what I'm proposing and will need to back up my
thoughts with books ...so that's why I noticed...sorry to be so picky...





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[mailto:discuss-bounces at lists.interactiondesigners.com] On Behalf Of
David Malouf
Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2007 10:46 AM
To: IXDA list
Subject: [IxDA Discuss] As promised B&A article on "Foundations
ofInteraction Design"

Well it is finally published. I think 2 years ago I suggested this
idea to the B&A web site and they got back to me like 6 months later
and then it took me forever to actually write it. Well, here it is:

http://www.boxesandarrows.com/view/foundations-of

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David Malouf
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