Designing for Interaction: Creating Smart Applications and Clever Devices

Designing for Interaction: Creating Smart Applications and Clever Devices

Dan Saffer

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Copyright © 2007 by Daniel Saffer

Acquisitions Editor: Michael Nolan

Project Editors: Cary Norsworthy, Ted Waitt

Development Editor: Judy Ziajka

Production Editor: Becky Winter

Compositor: Maureen Forys, Happenstance Type-O-Rama

Indexer: James Minkin

Proofreader: Dustin Hannum

Cover Design: Mimi Heft

Interior Design: Andrei Pasternak with Maureen Forys

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Dedication

For my wife, Rachael, my own Wizard of Oz, who gave me the brains, heart, and courage to undertake this book, and who helps me always return home.

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