Animation, Embodiment, and Digital Media Human Experience of Technol
Animation, Embodiment and Digital Media articulates the human experience of technology-mediated animated phenomena in terms of sensory perception, bodily action and imaginative interpretation, suggesting a new theoretical framework with analyses of exempl
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Animation, Embodiment, and Digital Media Human Experience of Technological Liveliness Kenny K. N. Chow The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
© Kenny K. N. Chow 2013
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Contents
List of Figures and Tables
viii
Acknowledgments
xi
List of Abbreviations
xiii
Part I Introduction 1 Technological Liveliness
7
Part II Theory 2 The Observer: We Perceive, We Become Aware
45
3 The Body: We Act, We Feel
64
4 The Mind: We Interpret, We Imagine
83
5 The Performer: We Improvise, We Create
101
Part III Analyses of Designs 6 User Interfaces
127
7 Digital Entertainment
145
8 Creative Expression
165
9 Implications
185
References
192
Index
200
vii
Figures and Tables
Figures 1.1 An animated ‘running’ green man on a traffic light in Taipei. Images by Lawrence Chiu. 1.2 Two genies, one commonly pictured in cartoons, the other in the OS X interface environment. OS X © 2013 Apple Inc. 1.3 An application icon (Fetch) bouncing in the dock of OS X. OS X © 2013 Apple Inc. Fetch © 2000– 2013 Fetch Softworks. 1.4 Using a rotary knob to control VTR playback: Clockwise spin results in forward playback of the video, while anticlockwise spin results in rewind. 1.5 Puppeteers being simultane
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