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The Prix Ars Electronica Archive is a collection enabling search and viewing of all the submissions since 1987. The award-winning projects are documented with catalogue texts and audio-visual media. All other submissions can be searched by title/artist and displayed with year, category in list form. Please cite the credits (artwork name, artist and photographer) and only use the materials if your article is related to Ars Electronica.
Extended Cognitive Tools
Jun Fujiki
“Extended Cognitive Tools” is the general name for software that has expressions for extending human recognition and includes Incompatible BLOCK”, “OLE Coordinate System”, and “Constellation”.
“Incompatible BLOCK” is a block-based 3D modeling software with an interface of wonders. While the user edits blocks by dragging them across the screen, based on 2D interpretation rather than 3D construction, the system places the block.
The “OLE Coordinate System” has some interactive illusions that enable the character to perform impossible motions on the block and the stairs in the virtual 3D world. For example, the character walks between non-contiguous blocks, which seem to be contiguous on the screen.
“Constellation” is point-based animation system that generates a character by using several points or metamorphoses a character by using points to construct another character.
Links: http://tserve01.aid.design.kyushu-u.ac.jp/~fujiki/ExtendedCognitiveTools/index.html
“Incompatible BLOCK” is a block-based 3D modeling software with an interface of wonders. While the user edits blocks by dragging them across the screen, based on 2D interpretation rather than 3D construction, the system places the block.
The “OLE Coordinate System” has some interactive illusions that enable the character to perform impossible motions on the block and the stairs in the virtual 3D world. For example, the character walks between non-contiguous blocks, which seem to be contiguous on the screen.
“Constellation” is point-based animation system that generates a character by using several points or metamorphoses a character by using points to construct another character.
Links: http://tserve01.aid.design.kyushu-u.ac.jp/~fujiki/ExtendedCognitiveTools/index.html
Jun Fujiki (JP), born in 1978, is currently an adjunct researcher at Kyushu University. He is involved in interface, interaction and experience design research. Taking as his inspiration “expressions that are impossible in reality, but possible in the human mind”, he is searching for an interface interaction that is capable of enriching people’s minds.