Forms of Expression for Designing Visual Languages for Animation

Author

Richard Christopher DAVIS, U.C. BerkeleyFollow
James A. Landay, University of Washington

Publication Type

Report

Publication Date

9-2005

Abstract

We present further steps in our research into visual languages for animation. Animation is a rich mode of communication that is currently accessible to few, because animation systems are complex. Some systems try to make animation simple but put severe limits on users’ creative expression. Our field studies are demonstrating that would-be animators need to express animation in a wide variety of ways. We are developing a taxonomy of forms of expression for animation that will help the designers of visual languages for animation to determine which expressive forms to support. Our end goal is to build animation sketching systems that use pen input to make animation universally accessible.

Discipline

Computer Sciences

First Page

327-328

Publisher

VL-HCC (Graduate Student Consortium)

City or Country

Dallas, TX, USA

Citation

DAVIS, Richard Christopher and Landay, James A.. Forms of Expression for Designing Visual Languages for Animation. (2005). 327-328.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research_all/6

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