interfaces
SYS 270 - Games Studies
definition
- Interface
- a point (area) where two systems, subjects, organizations, etc., meet and interact
- a device or program enabling a user to communicate with a computer
definition
Interface can mean many things
- a game controller
- a display device
- a system of manipulating a virtual character
- the way the game communicates information to the player
- ...
[ The Art of Game Design, Schell, p.255 ]
usage
Interface
Douglas Engelbart [wikipedia]
- early computer and Internet pioneer
- best known for work on founding the field of human-computer interaction (HCI)
- especially while at Augmentation Research Center (ARC) Lab in SRI International
- work resulted in invention of computer mouse, development of hypertext, networked computers, precursors to graphical user interfaces (GUI)
- all demoed at Fall Joint Computer Conference in San Francisco, December 9, 1968
- called [The Mother of All Demos]
Interface
“The live demonstration featured the introduction of the computer mouse, video conferencing, teleconferencing, hypertext, word processing, hypermedia, object addressing and dynamic file linking, bootstrapping, and a collaborative real-time editor.
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Interface
categories of gaming interfaces
- Physical Input -> World
- World -> Physical Output
- Physical Input -> Virtual Interface
- Virtual Interface -> World
- World -> Virtual Interface
- Virtual Interface -> Physical Output
physical input -> world/virtual
world/virtual -> physical output
[ crt, oculus, hololens, move, illumiroom, headphones ]
world/virtual -> physical output
