The language of movement categorized by description and origin
movement description by function tell / communicate: impart, transmit, express thoughts; give an account of acquaint: introduce, make familiar notify / apprise: inform someone about something warn: give notice of danger advise / instruct: give council to; furnish knowledge through a systematic method orient: set context possibly related / but how? : these examples indicate ways we understand through movement but they don't fit easily into categories of movement within interface.
movement origination
user
initiated
movement
tell user initiated acquaint user initiated notify user initiated warn user initiated
advise instruct user initiated orient user initiated possibly related user initiated
computer
initiated
movement
tell computer initiated acquaint initiated notify computer initiated warn computer initiated advise instruct computer initiated
orient computer initiated possibly related computer initiated
context
initiated
movement
tell context initiated acquaint context initiated
notify context initiated
  • terminator point of view data feed, or imagine a system that augments human vision by superimposing data onto what a person sees; enabling a surgeon to see data read from the inside of someone's brain, for example.
warn context initiated
advise instruct context initiated orient context initiated possibly related context initiated
  • hunkin zoo clock, scroll down to the 3 minute video in the middle of the page
  • cool dancer. OK, mmaybe this doesn't fit anywhere, but it intrigues me
personal
movement
explorations