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AskTog: Magic and Software Design |
 | | Software designers are struggling to generate more effective illusions for purposes of communicating to their users the design model of their applications (Heckel, Laurel, Norman, 1983, 1986, 1988, Rubinstein and Hersh, Shneiderman, 1992). |
 | | Actually, there are two simultaneous acts performed in magic: the one the magician actually doesthe magicians realityand the one the spectators perceivethe spectators reality: The magicians reality consists of all the sleights of hand and manipulation of gimmicked devices that make up the prosaic reality of magic. |
 | | Simulation and dissimulation are both important magic techniques: the magician who wishes to simulate a coin disappearing into thin air from his or her right hand had better be proficient enough at dissimulation that spectators dont notice the coin actually sliding into a pocket from the magicians left hand. |
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