Analyzing the Impact of Digitality and AI on HCI: Four Dimensions of Intelligent Digitality That Afford Innovative Designs

Interactive games on the Internet often reflect aspects of 'serious' behavior and attitude found in the real and virtual worlds. They can be used to analyze how digitality may be designed to attain positive individual and social impact. Consider a game such as Wordle and think about how different it is from a printed word puzzle, and moreover, think about how even more different you can make it by adding more digitality in the game's form and the way it is played. This paper analyzes the distinct, albeit interrelated, dimensions in which intelligent digitality can innovate the product, the process, the agency and the environment of human-computer interaction. We build on previous HCI research and metaphors to provide a framework for incorporating digitality, especially AI, to produce innovative designs, demonstrating these ideas with the (imaginative) design of Wordle.