Don Norman Affordances Video
A video made in 1994 by Don Norman about affordances. It’s interesting to see it explained by in a nice simple way.
[spotted on the Interaction-Design.org FaceBook page]
[video: YouTube – Affordances]
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A video made in 1994 by Don Norman about affordances. It’s interesting to see it explained by in a nice simple way.
[spotted on the Interaction-Design.org FaceBook page]
[video: YouTube – Affordances]
Here’s a list of the books that I have read recently whilst researching for an essay (or perhaps thesis chapter?) on the theory of both design and interaction design. The books are listed below in the same order as they are stacked in the photo above. Although I won’t claim that this list is in any way comprehensive, I feel that there is a good range of books here for anyone interested in researching design, and interaction design.
This is the Emotoscope, made by Kenichi Okada. In his own words:
Emotoscope is a device that gives you an experience of missing time.
Recent digital recording devices such as digital cameras or video cameras make it possible for us to take thousands of pictures or videos with high quality image, but as much as it becomes convenient, we are losing the opportunity of looking at things more carefully.
For this reason, I sometimes use an analog film camera to shoot my everyday life and play the films with a projector. Every time I watch film, it gives me nostalgic and emotional feelings. Then I start to miss the moment that I was there. The experiences become very precious to me. Why couldn’t I see that the moment was precious to me? If I can see present time as if seeing past experience, how would I feel by that?
It is this engagement on the emotional level that I would like to explore further in my own designs of new musical instruments. Perhaps one way would be to superimpose record crackle and hum on top of day to day sounds?
The first full-size BeatBearing body has been machined in the Engineering Workshop (Many thanks to Jim Knox and David Magill). Now just need to wire it up to an Arduino.
The photo above shows a mock-up of the BeatBearing in action (currently the washers aren’t wired up, so the balls can’t trigger anything).
This video shows the prototype Beatbearing in action. Sounds are triggered by placing the ball bearings in the recesses. Unfortunately due to handling the steel ball bearings have become slightly rusty so they make a less reliable contact as a switch. Hopefully this can be remedied with the use of stainless steel bearings.