Great list of films provided here. As someone mentioned here, the films need not be about interaction design per se. The concept of user experience (or rather viewer experience) is used to its maximum in films and filmmakers know exactly how to play with the dynamics of experience when making a film.
So while there may not be films that talk about interaction directly, from a user experience point of view, films in general are really worth watching. In our Interaction Culture class, we do this quite a few times. We watch films and analyze the portrayal of a concept by the director (like Kieslowski's , The double life of Veronique, The three Colors Trology) . While dealing with the classic notions of realism ad formalism in films is easy, it is really challenging to understand the same as discussed in a context of Interaction Design. And in this context it does help to think critically about the application of these classical film concepts to IxD. So for example, when saying that in formalism the stress is by the director is to make the viewer view what the director see (Films here are more from a director's perspective). Like using extreme close-ups or shallow depth of fields, to stress on a particular thing / action in a film, one can see a similar thing in the usage of pop-ups in the case of designing interface. When a pop-up takes over the page that the user is interacting with, its an example of how the interaction designer has designed to let the user interact with that particular screen. The notion of OK/Cancel on a pop-up in an interface would also fall under similar lines. When dealing with realisms and showing a more broader picture, one is leaving the interpretation to the viewer(The films here are more from an audience perspective). This is applicable mostly in the case of designs where there is a lot of information that the user has peruse through and decide oneself what to interact with first. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=34644 ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
