Foreword
What does a gesture-operated smart device have in common with a Shakespearian play?
No, this isn’t a pun, and it isn’t a trick question. The answer gets to the heart of this book. Theatre is about interaction, about themes and conflicts, goals and approaches to those goals, frustration, success, tension, and then the resolution of that tension. Theatre is dynamic, changing, always in motion. Our modern technologies with their powerful computers, multiple sensors, communication links, and displays are also about interaction, and treating that interaction as theatre proves to be rich, enlightening, and powerful.
Until recently, computers interacted with people in a stilted, pedestrian manner. Each screen was a static display. Designers ...
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