[IxDA Discuss] Interaction Design and Theatre

[Diego Moya]

On 03/03/2008, Michael Micheletti <michael.micheletti en gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 4:50 AM, Whitney Quesenbery <whitneyq en gmail.com>
> wrote:
> I dread the day something as intellectually rigorous and challenging as
> Labanotation is head-nodded all around for documenting system
> interactions.
> That evolutionary branch of IxD will dead-end as an academic backwater,
> much
> as Labanotation has in the dance community. The rest of us will move along
> and design stuff.


 I wonder if this notation could be reworked through the "Cognitive
dimensions" design space ( see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_dimensions ), in order to produce
more user-friendly alternate notations adapted to different contexts.

I don't know much about dance nor movement notations, but I recall seeing in
Tufte's books some old dancing diagrams based on footsteps and mannequins
that had a much lower abstraction level. Surely an expert designer with
dancing knowledge could produce a more usable formalism to represent body
movement?