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Thesis Info

LABS ID
00324
Thesis Title
A time phenomena study based on tabletop interaction
Author
Carles Sora i Domenjó
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3rd Author
Degree
Master thesis (MS)
Year
2009
Number of Pages
17
University
Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Thesis Supervisor
Sergi Jordà
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Language(s) of Thesis
English
Department / Discipline
Technology department
Languages Familiar to Author
English, Catalan, Spanish
URL where full thesis can be found
www.upf.edu/digidoc/_pdf/tangible_time_Carles_Sora.pdf
Keywords
Time, metaphor, tangible interaction, interaction design, cultural interfaces, tabletop interaction, moving images
Abstract: 200-500 words
This master thesis will try to stand a theoretical and practical approach into the understanding of time phenomena. We focus on the abstract representation of time in moving images that are manipulated with interactive interfaces. The representation of time had been always a big challenge in the artistic and scientific domain. Now, digital interfaces set new paradigms that can affect our time understanding and the conventions upon it’s meaning are build. We did an interdisciplinary summary that tries to understand how the western mental model of time is addressed in interactive applications. We present the state of the art that will sustain the future research and the two experiments that we performed in order to validated our hypothesis in time phenomena understanding in interactive moving images.