Movement in the interface

Abstract Interface design for the Web has received less attention in composition and rhetoric than other areas of computer-based communication. In this paper, we introduce the term dynamic interfaces to refer to developments in single screen environments. We see that kinetic interface design involves movement in the interface, through content and via media types. We relate this to a case the BallectroWeb that we developed to report on an educational research project with choreography students. We annotate and discuss this interface and its design, composition and communicability. We suggest that developments in dynamic interfaces may be read as part of an ongoing shift from Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) generated web ‘pages’ to emergent and shifting screen spaces in which movement is significant. We refer to the software Macromedia F lash and close by suggesting some of the main features of dynamic interfaces.

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