PhD Home People Research      Research Areas      Dissertations Resources	PhD Research > Dissertations Doctoral Researcher: Chujit Jeamsinkul Advisor: Sharon Poggenpohl (ID) Title: Methodology for Uncovering Motion Affordance in Interactive Media The nature of new media is dynamic; it changes through time. To support this dynamic change, knowledge of how to communicate information efficiently beyond static representation needs to be explored. Motion is a key element in interactive environments. Motion helps the user to perceive a change of state. The characteristics and capabilities of motion demonstrate its potential benefits to interaction, but there is very little guidance available concerning when and how to use motion in interactive media. By looking at motion systematically with regard to how users understand it, knowledge of how to use motion effectively in interactive media can be constructed. The focus of this research concentrates on the experimental method for uncovering motion meaning in terms of how users perceive, feel, understand, and respond to various types of motion in interactive media. Types of motion are systematically identified in a motion structure in order to develop a variable framework for creating an experiment from which user understanding can be derived. The experiment is designed to capture three types of motion meaning: interpretative meaning, emotional response, and motion affordance in interaction functions. The analysis from these relationships can recommend when and how to use motion effectively in interactive media. The findings of common meaning dimensions for each discrete motion can generalize for use in many ways depending on what function the motion represents. This research supports designers in exploring effective, comprehensible, and natural ways of using motion to enhance and facilitate user's activities while using interactive media.
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