StretchText was coined by Ted Nelson and is the idea of having the detail of content in a document to be user-controllable. Meaning that text nodes can be expanded and contracte, for instance depending on reader’s interests. It’s comparable to zooming in the domain of detail or meaning.
Variable Level-of-detail Documents (Weston Beecroft)
http://symbolflux.com/lodessay/
Joe Coleman (personal website)
https://getcoleman.com
Here, the criterion is intensity or confidence.
“The aim of this study is to evaluate the role of the physical body within a digital working environment by examining how certain physical motions take on gestural meaning and how these motions translate into the digital gestures that they subsequently create.”
Installation of an Amazon’s Alexa asked by Apple’s Siri about its politics.
Prototype of combined sensor and actuator to simulate different physical behaviours by software.
http://rmozone.com/snapshots/2017/10/rmo-at-google/#cutting-board (Video)
http://rmozone.com/snapshots/2017/10/rmo-at-google/#spill (Video, above)
“Idyll is a tool that makes it easier to author interactive narratives for the web. The goal of the project is to provide a friendly markup language — and an associated toolchain — that can be used to create dynamic, text-driven web pages.”
“TransFeed investigates the agregation, confrontation and archival of online documents.
TransFeed implies that if knowledge is information put into movement, manipulated, it is necessary to find places that allow this manipulation. Its purpose is to initiate a reflection on the forms that would suit this tool, and to question the levels of relation between texts.”
“Objectifier empowers people to train objects in their daily environment to respond to their unique behaviors. It gives an experience of training an artificial intelligence; a shift from a passive consumer to an active, playful director of domestic technology.”
(https://oldcomputers.net/canon-cat.html)
A computer system with text-based interface and some ideosyncratic tweaks developed by Raskin aimed at high efficiency and convenience. He elaborates on his approach in his “Humane Interface” book. Most notably the LEAP function, a way to quickly navigate around documents, that also introduced the dedicated LEAP buttons on the CanonCat’s keyboard.
“… is a hybrid graphics editor and programming environment for creating interactive diagrams.”
“… a series of objects presenting a playful interpretation take on the concept of the smart home.”
“This tool allows the user to distort the typeface as they write, using the moving palettes placed beneath their palms. The goal is to be able to produce one’s own typography in real time, thus offering a more personal approach.”
Fidelity and minimal latency as the thresholds for analogueness of digital media?
Digital instrument with a unique and potentially very intuitive analogue interface.
Digital image atlas following ideas of Aby Warburg and Walter Benjamin, focused on objects of non-western culture. Not very rich of material.
“…for the display an open number of artifacts, objects and positions that may enter via an edited matrix of attributes into variable, unpredictable, and dynamic relations with each other.”