Have You Heard This? Designing Mobile Social Software

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.

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

Form Akademisk - forskningstidsskrift for design og designdidaktikk ◽

10.7577/formakademisk.180 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 3 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Jon Olav Eikenes

Keyword(s):

Interface Design ◽

Social Semiotics ◽

Web Browsing ◽

Research Project ◽

Form And Function ◽

Visual Movement ◽

Practice Based Research ◽

And Function ◽

Semiotic Theory

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Urban and Architectural 3-D Fast Processing

Reflexing Interfaces ◽

10.4018/978-1-59904-627-3.ch017 ◽

2011 ◽

pp. 278-289

Author(s):

Renato Saleri Lunazzi

Keyword(s):

Google Earth ◽

Research Project ◽

Design Processes ◽

Form And Function ◽

Initial Approach ◽

Fast Processing ◽

Generative Methods ◽

And Function ◽

Virtual Earth

The main goal of this chapter is to present a research project that consists of applying automatic generative methods in design processes. The initial approach briefly explores early theoretical conjectures, starting with form and function balance within former conceptual investigations. The following experiments describe original techniques introducing integrated 2-D and 3-D generators for the enhancement of recent 3-D Earth browsers (Virtual Terrain©, MSN Virtual Earth©, or Google Earth©) and cellularautomata processes for architectural programmatic optimization.

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A Short History and Demonstration of the Dynamic Table of Contexts

Scholarly and Research Communication ◽

10.22230/src.2012v3n4a55 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 3 (4) ◽

Author(s):

Brent Nelson ◽

Stéfan Sinclair ◽

Susan Brown ◽

Milena Radzikowska ◽

Mark Bieber ◽

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Keyword(s):

Interface Design ◽

Theoretical Framework ◽

Common Element ◽

Textual Studies ◽

Short History ◽

Digital Medium ◽

Form And Function ◽

New Knowledge ◽

And Function ◽

The Relationship

This paper presents a brief account of the form and function of the “table of contents” to establish a theoretical framework for understanding the form and function of this common element of book architecture with the aim of informing the development of a dynamic table of contexts for books and reading in the digital medium. This paper will thus theorize the relationship between textual studies and interface design in INKE, a project for Implementing New Knowledge Environments.

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Form and Function: Examples of Music Interface Design

10.14236/ewic/hci2010.60 ◽

2010 ◽

Author(s):

Richard Hoadley

Keyword(s):

Interface Design ◽

Form And Function ◽

And Function

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Scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) of DNA and RNA

Proceedings, annual meeting, Electron Microscopy Society of America ◽

10.1017/s0424820100152148 ◽

1989 ◽

Vol 47 ◽

pp. 34-35

Author(s):

Patricia G. Arscott ◽

Gil Lee ◽

Victor A. Bloomfield ◽

D. Fennell Evans

Keyword(s):

Molecular Structures ◽

Inorganic Materials ◽

Resolving Power ◽

Scanning Tunneling ◽

Tunneling Microscopy ◽

Form And Function ◽

Dna And Rna ◽

Calf Thymus ◽

And Function ◽

The Relationship

STM is one of the most promising techniques available for visualizing the fine details of biomolecular structure. It has been used to map the surface topography of inorganic materials in atomic dimensions, and thus has the resolving power not only to determine the conformation of small molecules but to distinguish site-specific features within a molecule. That level of detail is of critical importance in understanding the relationship between form and function in biological systems. The size, shape, and accessibility of molecular structures can be determined much more accurately by STM than by electron microscopy since no staining, shadowing or labeling with heavy metals is required, and there is no exposure to damaging radiation by electrons. Crystallography and most other physical techniques do not give information about individual molecules.We have obtained striking images of DNA and RNA, using calf thymus DNA and two synthetic polynucleotides, poly(dG-me5dC)·poly(dG-me5dC) and poly(rA)·poly(rU).

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