interface as artefact - non-visual intuition with everyday interfaces

Plato was clear about this: thinking was separate from sensing, and the objects of knowledge were exclusive to the mind.

-Sensory Design

Interface As Artefact is the reinvention to inspire us to interact with our everyday products by a non-visual intuition. The “unseen perception” of these reformed objects is to make visible the Thinking – as a distinctive sense which is as alert as seeing – to influence human’s overdependence on visually perceived interfaces. The absence of these artefacts’ primary functionality indicates this “another route” – non-visual interfaces which interact by the senses of touch, smell, sound and kinesthesia – for products to be developed to empower the human intuition with objects’ essence. The subjective perception from these objects was made to induce more conception of intuitive interfaces from designers in field of interaction, interface, electronic and inclusive design.

The Watch presents time on the inside loop of a bracelet which can only read by the feelings from your arm. What time it is? - Watch for sense of touch to perceived time anytime and anywhere by the "unseen" subjective perception.

The Watch

What will your 7 o’clock smelled like if The Clock was made to use the scent to tell time? Smell is subject that everybody have his own philosophy. The Clock was made as a container to contain the individual's own knowledge of time.

I adjust the aperture of this shot by feeling the size changing in my hand. The Cameras can be interacting by the subjective sense of kinesthesia which is the visualization of the "unseen factors" of a camera. Which one is more understandable? Standardize instructions or subjective perception?

Can you read the focus of the cam-era by feeling the length changing in your hand?

Shutter speed no longer indicate by the confusing numders but by the movement of turning.

The Camera of sense of sound was made to visualize the interaction of adjusting the functions of a camera. The knowledge of these functions being communicated by the sound from the speaker of the camera and your eyes became the viewfinder.

How to interact with these products by non-visual human intuition? How will the redesigned interaction informs form?

by JC Yeh (Chieh-Hsin Yeh)

Phone: +44(0)7402402914Website: www.jcyeh.com

Email: info@jcyeh.com

by JC Yeh

Phone: +44(0)7402402914Website: www.jcyeh.com

Email: info@jcyeh.com