Lee, John

Wright, Mark

Dima, Maria

2013-09-25T13:04:19Z

2013-09-25T13:04:19Z

2013-06-28

This design-led research investigates the transfer of puppet stop-motion animators’ embodied skills from the physical workspace into a digital environment. The approach is to create a digital workspace that evokes an embodied animating experience and allows puppet stop-motion animators to work in it unencumbered. The insights and outcomes of the practical explorations are discussed from the perspective of embodied cognition. The digital workspace employs haptic technology, an advanced multi-modal interface technology capable of invoking the tactile, kinaesthetic and proprioceptive senses. The overall aim of this research is to contribute, to the Human-Computer Interaction design community, design considerations and strategies for developing haptic workspaces that can seamlessly transfer and accommodate the rich embodied knowledge of non-digital skillful practitioners. Following an experiential design methodology, a series of design studies in collaboration with puppet stop-motion animators led to the development of a haptic workspace prototype for producing stop-motion animations. Each design study practically explored the transfer of different aspects of the puppet stop-motion animation practice into the haptic workspace. Beginning with an initial haptic workspace prototype, its design was refined in each study with the addition of new functionalities and new interaction metaphors which were always developed with the aim to create and maintain an embodied animating experience. The method of multiple streams of reflection was proposed as an important design tool for identifying, understanding and articulating design insights, empirical results and contextual considerations throughout the design studies. This thesis documents the development of the haptic workspace prototype and discusses the collected design insights and empirical results from the perspective of embodied cognition. In addition, it describes and reviews the design methodology that was adopted as an appropriate approach towards the design of the haptic workspace prototype.

http://hdl.handle.net/1842/7866

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The University of Edinburgh

Dima M., Lee J., Wright M. 2010. "Exploration of direct bi-manual interaction in digitally mediated stop-motion animation", Proceedings of NordiCHI 2010, Reykjavik, Iceland

Dima M., Lee J., Wright M. 2010. "Hapty : a Haptically Augmented Animation tool", Extended abstracts, CREATE 2010, Edinburgh, UK

Dima M., Lee J., Wright M. 2009. "Designing a creative interface for character animation: Embodying the qualities of hand practice in the digital process", Doctoral Consortium, British HCI 2009, Cambridge, UK

Dima M., Ulattil A., Cao X., Lee J., Wright M. 2009. "Designing a haptically extended interface for digitally animating 3D articulated characters". Proceedings of EVA London 2009

Biggs S., Dima M., Ekeus H., Hawksley S., Timmons W., Wright M. 2009. "The H in HCI: Enhancing perception of interaction through the performative", Proceedings of HCI International 2009, Lecture Notes In Computer Science; Vol. 5622, Springer-Verlag

Dima M., Arvind D.K., Lee J., Wright M. 2008. "Haptically extended augmented prototyping", Proceedings of International Symposium for Mixed and Augmented Reality 2008

haptic

haptics

animation

Design-led approach for transferring the embodied skills of puppet stop-motion animators into haptic workspaces

Thesis or Dissertation

Doctoral

PhD Doctor of Philosophy