PathScapes - Interface Options for Visual Indexing
Mike Leggett · 2003
A short paper outlining some issues concerning hypermedia, cinematic immersive states and navigation in the development of an interactive multimedia prototype, PathScape. The experimental model set out to critique Human Computer Interfaces that rely heavily on metaphors derived from the mechanical age and found more in common with classical pre-literacy interfaces that complemented the workings of human memory. The modern computer is capable of circumventing the written word and demonstrating, on-demand, the spoken word, sound and picture. Though the technical provision for achieving this is rapidly occurring, an interface for indexing sounds and images which is not dependent on words, lies comparatively neglected in HCI advancement.