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Calligraphic Video: Using the Body's Intuition of Matter

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  • Sha Xin Wei

    (Concordia University, Canada)

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Since 1984, Graphical User Interfaces have typically relied on visual icons that mimic physical objects like the folder, button, and trash can, or canonical geometric elements like menus, and spreadsheet cells. GUI’s leverage our intuition about the physical environment. But the world can be thought of as being made of stuff as well as things. Making interfaces from this point of view requires a way to simulate the physics of stuff in realtime response to continuous gesture, driven by behavior logic that can be understood by the user and the designer. The author argues for leveraging the corporeal intuition that people learn from birth about heat flow, water, smoke, to develop interfaces at the density of matter that leverage in turn the state of the art in computational physics.

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  • Sha Xin Wei, 2010. "Calligraphic Video: Using the Body's Intuition of Matter," International Journal of Creative Interfaces and Computer Graphics (IJCICG), IGI Global, vol. 1(1), pages 67-83, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:igg:jcicg0:v:1:y:2010:i:1:p:67-83
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