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Linda Hirsch, Jingyi Li, Sven Mayer, Andreas Butz
A Survey of Natural Design for Interaction
MuC 2022, September 4-7, 2022, Darmstadt, Germany 2022 Association for Computing Machinery.ACM ISBN 978-1-4503-9690-5/22/09 https://doi.org/10.1145/3543758.3543773 (bib)

The term ``Natural Design'' has various meanings and applications within and beyond the human-computer interaction community. Yet, there is no consensus on whether it is a relevant design approach or only a descriptive term without profound meaning. We investigated the current understanding and design potential of ``Natural Design'' for interaction in a systematic literature review. By analyzing and rating 113 papers, we identified 47 relevant papers that applied Natural Design in different contexts. The understanding of the approach changes from nature-related inspirations to context-dependent naturalness based on increasing familiarity or expectations. We present a structured overview of these relevant papers, contribute a systematic Natural Design model for interaction and add 20 implications for applying Natural Design to natural user interfaces, natural interaction, or computation. We identified ``Natural Design'' as a relevant design approach to create intuitive and embedded interfaces that can profit from related concepts outside human-computer interaction.