Field of play: sensual interface

ABSTRACT

Focusing on intuitive, non-expert users as audience yields an interface that maximizes the sensuous features of the desktop environment, including sound, color, and pattern. It fits into a category that is not computer games or graphics software per se, but a kind of art that makes art. Digital activities of this sort can act as a bridge to more analytical aspects of computers.

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INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  J. Computer Applications
  J.5 ARTS AND HUMANITIES
      Subjects: Fine arts

General Terms:
Design, Human Factors

Keywords:
art and technology, computer games - social aspects, computer graphics - case studies, interactivity