TAG ::. Taller d'Intangibles ::. LVI ::. Jaume Ferrer & David Gómez
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Laberint Virtual

Virtual Maze
[performed in a seminar in Hangar]

comments:

This work closes the experiences developed in Hangar. We return to similar concepts which you can find in our first experience, REN, and in this case our aim is to take REN into the net. We change the paper pieces by hypertext files and the marked lines by hypertext links. We want to build a maze composed by hypertext documents very interconnected, where the user could be orientated by the background page color. We are interested in to get a consistent visual interface which finds compatible different pages based on very different esthetic points of view.

One more time, each team works alone and doesn't know what the rest of people are doing. Afterwards, a protocol based on a very simple design rules allows to get one navigation structure where all contents are together in an orderly but not obviously way. We show now a previous simplified prototype:

We hide intentionally some information because we like that the user takes decisions using a mental map. One interface like that could be a nightmare for a usability engineer, but we think that it's very interesting because it provides a navigation experience closer to the way like we explore the real world. When we proposed this work we were not interested in to follow the famous and obsessive three-mouse-cliks law which tries to link two points by the shortest way. Here, this law is replaced by the pleasure of exploring a suggestive visual space.