[IxDA Discuss] Interaction Design and Theatre

[John Vaughan]

As the guy who initiated the "labanotation" reference:

A) Agreed - It's really complex & cumbersome.
B) Anything can be done badly.
     but
C) It's interesting & relevant because it's an attempt to capture the 
dynamics of interaction - in a ll its relativity and complexity.

That said; Visio diagrams - limited as they are - remain as the convention 
du jour for our discipline.  We can do better.  Glad to see the discussion 
here...

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Diego Moya" <turingt at gmail.com>
To: "Michael Micheletti" <michael.micheletti at gmail.com>
Cc: <discuss at ixda.org>
Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2008 3:34 AM
Subject: Re: [IxDA Discuss] Interaction Design and Theatre


> On 03/03/2008, Michael Micheletti <michael.micheletti at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 4:50 AM, Whitney Quesenbery <whitneyq at 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?
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