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I'm obsessed with interfaces at the moment. How do humans interface with computers and data, from control to visual feedback. How humans interface with music,

by aeonik 3y ago

I'm obsessed with interfaces at the moment. How do humans interface with computers and data, from control to visual feedback. How humans interface with music, perform it, read it, store it. How do birds interface with tones and rhythm? How software interfaces with other software and hardware. How humans interface with the world via symbols. I've been reading about Semiotics a bit, and find the field fascinating. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semiotics?wprov=sfla1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semiotics?wprov=sfla1 Birdsong as code: https://youtu.be/OCYU0LtqRH0?si=4DwOKC3oZ6vE-w-y https://youtu.be/OCYU0LtqRH0?si=4DwOKC3oZ6vE-w-y

ProllyInfamous 3y ago
Howdy fellow intellectual/addict! Currently I'm reading Michael Pollen's "Botany of Desire" about how how plants interface/manipulate humans (spec: Apple, Orhid, Marijuana, Potatoe). There is a salacious passage on sexual reproduction strategies, involving bees ("flying penises") and this plant that "play resists" the bees entering — and then author Pollen ends his description of this interface by suggesting: many people might see this as the bee penetrating the coy defences of the flower, but in fact it is the flower manipulating bees. I'm gonna give you the first recommendation free, but the next one'll cost'ya =D
interestica 3y ago
For my masters I proposed that you could treat urban spaces as one giant interface (and that interface would appear different to different users). After stepping away from it for a while, I've gotten back into it. My main interest is information design for wayfinding, transit, and urban navigation. It's such a human problem and it's so fascinating. Though he never called it such, a lot of it intersects with Donald Norman's work that he describes in "The Design of Everyday Things". Even the objects we intereact with are interfaces. Drop me a line if you're looking to chat about it all.
- lambdaloop 3y ago
  I'm not OP, but I've been interested in something like this, but from the perspective of memory systems within oral cultures. I'd love to talk more! I wonder if you know (and maybe have thoughts about) the arrangement of ancient Cusco, set up to be possible to navigate without any written directions (as the Inca effectively functioned without a writing system). From Lynn Kelly's Memory Code: > The Inca turned their major city, Cusco, into a massive memory space, the details of which were documented by the colonising Spanish. Radiating from the Coricancha temple in the centre were over 40 pilgrimage pathways known as ceques. The ceques divided the land into wedge-shaped political, agricultural and irrigation zones, each assigned to a specific kinship group. It is still unclear the degree to which the ceques were physical paths and how much they were purely imagined. To form a city-sized memory space, it does not matter as long as the pathways could be followed in the minds of the users. I've been thinking about how memory intersects with navigation, and how both of these influence how we interpret the world.
dfex 3y ago
Greetings from a fellow interface junkie! I am noticing more and more how underwhelmed I am by the current status quo of human/computer interaction - everything seems so homogenous now, and after being heavily inspired by Alan Kay and Brett Victor, I'm sure there is a lot more to be done in this space.

by aeonik 3y ago

ProllyInfamous 3y ago

Howdy fellow intellectual/addict! Currently I'm reading Michael Pollen's "Botany of Desire" about how how plants interface/manipulate humans (spec: Apple, Orhid, Marijuana, Potatoe). There is a salacious passage on sexual reproduction strategies, involving bees ("flying penises") and this plant that "play resists" the bees entering — and then author Pollen ends his description of this interface by suggesting: many people might see this as the bee penetrating the coy defences of the flower, but in fact it is the flower manipulating bees. I'm gonna give you the first recommendation free, but the next one'll cost'ya =D

interestica 3y ago

For my masters I proposed that you could treat urban spaces as one giant interface (and that interface would appear different to different users). After stepping away from it for a while, I've gotten back into it. My main interest is information design for wayfinding, transit, and urban navigation. It's such a human problem and it's so fascinating. Though he never called it such, a lot of it intersects with Donald Norman's work that he describes in "The Design of Everyday Things". Even the objects we intereact with are interfaces. Drop me a line if you're looking to chat about it all.

lambdaloop 3y ago
I'm not OP, but I've been interested in something like this, but from the perspective of memory systems within oral cultures. I'd love to talk more! I wonder if you know (and maybe have thoughts about) the arrangement of ancient Cusco, set up to be possible to navigate without any written directions (as the Inca effectively functioned without a writing system). From Lynn Kelly's Memory Code: > The Inca turned their major city, Cusco, into a massive memory space, the details of which were documented by the colonising Spanish. Radiating from the Coricancha temple in the centre were over 40 pilgrimage pathways known as ceques. The ceques divided the land into wedge-shaped political, agricultural and irrigation zones, each assigned to a specific kinship group. It is still unclear the degree to which the ceques were physical paths and how much they were purely imagined. To form a city-sized memory space, it does not matter as long as the pathways could be followed in the minds of the users. I've been thinking about how memory intersects with navigation, and how both of these influence how we interpret the world.

dfex 3y ago

Greetings from a fellow interface junkie! I am noticing more and more how underwhelmed I am by the current status quo of human/computer interaction - everything seems so homogenous now, and after being heavily inspired by Alan Kay and Brett Victor, I'm sure there is a lot more to be done in this space.