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Connecting motional form to interface actions in web browsing: Investigating through motion sketching

Author(s) -

Jon Olav Eikenes

Publication year - 2010

Publication title -

formakademisk - forskningstidsskrift for design og designdidaktikk

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.225

H-Index - 3

ISSN - 1890-9515

DOI - 10.7577/formakademisk.180

Subject(s) - interface (matter) , motion (physics) , semiotics , computer science , action (physics) , movement (music) , human–computer interaction , mediation , function (biology) , world wide web , user interface , multimedia , artificial intelligence , sociology , aesthetics , physics , epistemology , art , social science , philosophy , bubble , quantum mechanics , maximum bubble pressure method , parallel computing , evolutionary biology , biology , operating system

It is now possible to include complex visual movement in screen interfaces, including those that enable web browsing on different media devices. This article investigates the potential for employing movement in web browsing – or more specifically, how motional form may be connected to interface actions. The investigation is carried out through design experimentation. Techniques of ‘motion sketching’ have been developed and utilized in a practice-based research project. The resulting motion sketches are analysed as realizations of complex mediation – by drawing on social semiotics and the concept of action from Leont’ev. The article argues that motional form is made meaningful through connotations and experiential metaphors, and suggests ten provisional principles for how motional form may be used in web browsing. This challenges notions of form and function in current interface design and how social semiotic theory may be produced.