The (Ancient) Art of Conversation: Styling Beyond the GUI

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">What happens when your ability to persuade *is* your UI?</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">Looking to antiquity to reframe our vision of the future, this talk uses the 5 Canons of Rhetoric from ancient Greek philosophy as a framework to examine how we will design and build chatbots, hybrid UIs, and hidden UI interactions going forwards.</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">Invention, Style, Arrangement, Delivery and Memory: these canons were conceived to win hearts, minds, and votes. In digital, our measures of success are engagement, traction and conversion - and when our computing interactions are reduced to simple conversations, our entire arsenal may once again be rhetoric. Let's learn what philosophy can teach us about designing for the future of computing.</span>