The Familiarity of Being Digital: Digital Abstraction and Representation of Embodied Interaction

Al-Attili, Aghlab; Androulaki, Maria

Abstract

This paper addresses issues pertaining to the familiarity of the digital abstraction and representation in architecture. Our investigation into the nature of human interaction with space, its abstraction and its representation is based on the critical contrast between the outcomes of interaction with two virtual versions of a physical reality; the first version is a non-linear interactive graphical abstraction of the space where no assertions or indicators are given as to whether or not there is a relationship between the abstraction and its physical reality, whereas the second is a none-linear interactive 3D virtual environment clearly representing the physical space in question.

Citation

Al-Attili, A., & Androulaki, M. (2009). The Familiarity of Being Digital: Digital Abstraction and Representation of Embodied Interaction. In K. Terzidis (Ed.), Critical Digital: Who Cares? (153-158). Harvard University Graduate School of Design

• Publication Date: Apr 1, 2009
• Deposit Date: Oct 28, 2010
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Pages: 153-158
• Book Title: Critical Digital: Who Cares?
• ISBN: 9788865281499
• Keywords: Critical Digital, Who Cares(?), Familiarity, Being Digital, Digital Abstraction, Representation, Embodied Interaction, phenomenology
• Publisher URL: http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k23421
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