a framework for toolmaking
Excercise:
Pick a software application that you use commonly, for example, Adobe Photoshop. Looking at the drop down menus pick around 6 commands and invent gestures for them. Start with hand gestures, move to arm gestures and then try to use your whole body. Try to do this quickly. Use at least one down a level. Record your gestures as video, photographs or drawings.
Study Questions:
- What kind of application did you pick? Was it a text editor, a video editor, a graphics program? How do you think it would have been different if you had picked something else?
- Which was the hardest to do, limit the movement to your hand or spread it to your whole body?
- What did you use to record your gestures and why? Did you learn anything from the process? Did you revise your motion?
Concept Level:
Secondary, Body/Code
My Questions:
Should I standardize the commands to get cross-participant comparisons or since this is “for them” does it matter?
Why This:
This is a code/body interaction exercise designed to help people draw keyboard shortcuts and menu commands off a monitor/mouse/keyboard system and back into actual behaviors. Cut, copy and paste are 3 commands based on real world concepts, but what about “Filter > Sketch > Graphic Pen” The reason to have them record the gesture rather than just perform it in a class or in front of a mirror is to have them think about how gesture can be recorded, looked at or interpreted. This will help with designing machine vision algorithms… or deciding to use something else!
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