From: "Bruce Cohen;;50-662;LP=A;" Subject: Re: Musical Virtual Worlds Date: 15 Nov 90 02:45:01 GMT Organization: Tektronix Inc. In article <1990Nov13.213038.27046@cpsc.ucalgary.ca> garry@cs-sun-fsc.cpsc.ucalgary.ca (Garry Beirne) writes: > First, it is assumed that the occupant/participant/user/performer in a > MVW is a 'virtuoso'; they are experts in communicating via very > specific musical gestures (bowing the violin, playing the piano, etc.) > and there is a well established vocabulary within the range of gestures > they use. In VR we almost always assume a naive user. Very good point. In corrobaration, I'd like to mention the banquet speech at OOPSLA/ECOOP in Ottawa a few weeks ago, given by Bill Buxton. He argued passionately for user interfaces which allow experts to make use of their expertise, and designers who respect the time and energy experts have invested in their expertise. He's a musician, and as one example of what he meant, he played a few bars on a Yamaha electronic saxophone, pointing out that the design of its interface allowed him to make use of the years he'd spent developing his embrouchure (sp?). -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Speaker-to-managers, aka Bruce Cohen, Computer Research Lab email: brucec@tekchips.labs.tek.com Tektronix Laboratories, Tektronix, Inc. phone: (503)627-5241 M/S 50-662, P.O. Box 500, Beaverton, OR 97077