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Movement. Public Space. Friction. Interface.
Hsuan Lin
How can space transform into a vector that mediates our moves? This thesis book is filled with multi-layered short stories, indexes, and a vivid body of work. It is an invitation to drift through dimensional space, function, and get, consensually, navigated. By excavating dynamic systems for simple reasons, it deconstructs human behavior in levels in which mediated movements within the constructs of manmade environments can be re-envisioned as a way to design a user interface.

Draw Your Blues
A ‘limited-blue-notes’ interface design by Processing, derived from the concept of invisible buttons as the interface, is created for people to play the blues by drawing to create variable outcomes.
A Map of Laughter
How can we illustrate the dimension of a map? What should a map look like if it doesn’t have navigation or direction? This space map of laughter is based on on-site research at Industry City in Brooklyn.
Desktop Metaphor and Chess
A writing piece connecting mac interface design to chess board with a thread train track sound by Steve Rich and Fantaisie Impromptu piano sound by me, with two voice-overs: Siri and I.