The Interface-User Relationship: Applied to Gesture Interactive Interfaces
Mariana Simões
Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Porto, PT
Video 2'06"
Keywords: Experiment; Gesture; Natural; Interface; Force Field.
The relationship between the digital user and the computer is still a very primal one. The user is dependent on which instructions the computer is capable of processing. This puts aside a natural ease of communication and demands learning from whoever wants to interact with or through the computer.
"The Interface-User Relationship: Applied to Gesture Interactive Interfaces" is a publication that aims to explore how one could naturalise the relation between user and interface. The artifact that complements this issue is called "Frameworks for Interfaces" and is based on Spielberg's "Minority Report", a film that portrays a gestural interface. It aims to build a base for a system's interface that could read and interpret human's gestures. It was built in Processing to incorporate a force field and merge it with the user's gesture through color spotting. It remains as a draft to later develop its complexity.
This publication was written within FBAUP's Visual Culture discipline, under the supervision of professors Heitor Alvelos and Miguel Carvalhais. 2019
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