Moving in rhythms: what dancers and drummers can teach us about designing digital interactions
Brigid Mary Costello · Digital Creativity · 2020
Interviews with three dancers and three percussionists about performing, perceiving and composing rhythms are used to develop insights into ways that interaction designers might understand and shape the rhythmic experiences of their users. These insights coalesce around three themes: feeling your way into a rhythm, performing rhythms and the dance of synchrony. The article argues that a user’s experience of the rhythms within a design will play a significant role in its affective impact.