An iconography of interaction
Subtitle: history, structure and function of interactive pictures
By: Rainer Groh ; translation, Katharina Haas
Contributors: Haas, Katharina, translator
Publisher: TUD Press
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Dresden
Language: eng
Number of pages: 245
ISBN-13: 9783959080910
Subjects: Art; Pictures; Interactive multimedia; Picture perception; Image processing; Digital techniques; Visual perception
Work titles: Ikonografie der Interaktion
Description: Iconography as a method of content interpretation and analysis is traditionally related to works of the visual arts. With interactive systems and their graphic interfaces, new fields await iconographic descriptions. The project of "An Iconography of Interaction" is implemented on a foundation which is inconsistent and in motion. Accordingly, this book leads to different research topics: narratology, structure and form analysis, technologies of picture generation, and deep into the art history of interactive pictures. Furthermore, numerous findings of usability research, software ergonomics, as well as cognitive psychology have to be considered. In this book, all of these "tributaries" to "An Iconography of Interaction" are arranged into a causal network. The aim is a concept formation, as well as the determination of application-oriented rules and principles. Recipients of this exposition are primarily students of computational visualistics, media computer science, and interaction design. The book is a contribution to the theory of technical visualistics which was established in Dresden.
Notes: Translated from the German.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Structure of interactive pictures; title: History of interactive visualistics; title: Methods of projection; title: Function of interactive pictures; title: Research issues of an iconography of interaction.