Experiences With The Alternate Reality Kit An Example of the Tev_sion Between Literalism and Magic

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  • Randall B. Smith
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simulations. ARK is built upon a physical-world metaphor: all objects have an image, a position, a velocity, and can experience forces. Users manipulate objects with a mouse-operated "hand" which enables them to carry and throw objects, to press buttons, and to operate sliders. The interface features are discussed in light of a general user interface tension between literalism and magic. Literal features are defined to be those that are true to the interface's metaphor. Literal features enhance an interface's learnability. Magical features are defined to 'be those capabilities that deliberately violate the metaphor in order to provide enhanced functionality. Discussion of each ARK feature includes informal observations of early ARK users, an assessment of the feature's learnability, of its usefulness, and of its position on the magical-literal axis. Even though ARK includes magical features, applications-level users have be trained in a few minutes. Although this paper is about ARK, the tension between literalism and magic raises some interesting questions on its own. Some of these questions are presented briefly in the conclusion. RI~SUMI~ Cette presentation donne une description g~n~rale d'une ¢¢trousse ~ outils pour une autre r~a l i t~ (ARK: Alternate Reality Kit), qui consiste en un environement anim(~ pour faire de la simulation interactive. ARK est bast sur un module du monde physique: les objets y ont une image, une position, une vitesse, et y sent soumis ~ des forces. Les utilisateurs manipulent les objets I'aide d'une ~cmain~ contr61~e par la souris, qui leur permet de porter et lancer des objects, d 'appuyer sur des boutons et d'aj uster des l eviers. Les propri~t~s de I'interface sont d~crites en fonction d'un conflit entre rdalisme et magie. Les propri~t~s r~alistes sont celles Permission to copy without fee all or part of this material is granted provided that the copies are not made or distributed for direct commercial advantage, the ACM copyright notice and the title of the publication and its date appear, and notice is given that copying is by permission of the Association for Computing Machinery. To copy otherwise, or to republish, requires a fee and/or specific permission. © 1 9 8 7 A C M 0 8 9 7 9 1 2 1 3 6 / 8 7 / 0 0 0 4 / 0 0 6 1 $ 0 0 . 7 5 qui respectent le module physique sur lequel est bask I'interface et qui facilitent I'apprentissage de ce dernier. Les propri~t~s magiques sont celles qui violent les regles du modEle physique pour en accro•tre les fonctions. La discussion portant sur chaque propri~t~ de ARK comprend les r~sultats d'observations des premiers utilisateurs, une ~valuation de la facilit~ d'apprentissage de la propri~tE en question, de son utilit~ et de sa position le long de I'axe magie-r~alisme. Bien que ARK comprenne des propri~t~s magiques, ses utilisateurs, au niveau des applications, ont pu ~tre entratn~s en quelques minutes. Quoique cette presentation porte sur ARK, le conflit entre r~alisme et magie soul~ve de son propre chef des questions, dont certaines sont br i~vement pr~sent~es en

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تاریخ انتشار 2016