Mapping Movement: A Human Movement-based Framework for the Creation of Organised Integrated Experiences

In this paper a framework for mapping human movement that matches the logic of describing corporal action with an organised integrated system of interaction is offered. To achieve this movement constructs that draw on broad terms of movement descriptions required by the language of Labanotation to create movement are used in combination with a noun-verb interaction model to communicate human actions that share a direct relationship to interactive system objects and operations.

Underpinned by the development of an idea, as an organising principle, the framework supplies designers with a starting point to create interactions that align corporal motion with emerging uses of technology and product qualities. This allows for the interplay between different forms of interaction that unite movement with objects, actions and product qualities to be documented. The framework is described and illustrated by way of example and is extended to include mobile devices in its formation.