Form-giving: expressing the nonobvious

Gerda Smets; Kees Overbeeke; William Gaver

doi:10.1145/191666.191706

Form-giving: expressing the nonobvious

Gerda Smets, Kees Overbeeke, William Gaver

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Abstract

The design of richly informative interfaces would benefit from an account of how visual forms convey information. In this paper we suggest that the study of~orwz-giving in Industrial Engineering might provide a foundation for such an account. We present three studies of designed synesthesia, in which objects’ forms indicate non-visible attributes such as taste or smell. These studies illustrate the rich possibilities for conveying information with form, possibilities which are routinely exploited in industrial design. We believe that similar opportunities exist for interface design, and that further studies of form-giving may help in taking advantage of them. Results of a student exercise expressing computer metaphors in 3D forms will be discussed.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	CHI '94: Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Editors	Beth Adelson, Susan Dumais, Judith Olson
Place of Publication	New York, US
Publisher	ACM
Pages	79-84
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Print)	9780897916509
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/191666.191706
Publication status	Published - 24 Apr 1994
Externally published	Yes
Event	CHI94: ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computer Systems - Boston, United States Duration: 24 Apr 1994 → 28 Apr 1994

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Conference	CHI94: ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computer Systems
Country/Territory	United States
City	Boston
Period	24/04/94 → 28/04/94

Keywords

Interface design
visualization
form-giving
affordances
ecological approaches

Research Group keywords

Interaction Research Studio

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Smets, G, Overbeeke, K & Gaver, W 1994, Form-giving: expressing the nonobvious. in B Adelson, S Dumais & J Olson (eds), CHI '94: Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. ACM, New York, US, pp. 79-84, CHI94: ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computer Systems, Boston, Massachusetts, United States, 24/04/94. https://doi.org/10.1145/191666.191706

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