Principles, techniques, and ethics of stage magic and their application to human interface design

  • Authors:
  • Bruce Tognazzini

  • Affiliations:
  • Sunsoft, A Sun Microsystems Business, 2550 Garcia Ave. M/S MTV21-225, Mountain View, CA

  • Venue:
  • CHI '93 Proceedings of the INTERACT '93 and CHI '93 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
  • Year:
  • 1993

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Abstract

Magicians have been designing and presenting illusions for 5000 years. They have developed principles, techniques and ethical positions for their craft that this paper argues are applicable to the design of human/computer interfaces. The author presents a number of specific examples from magic and discusses their counterparts in human interface design, in hopes that human interface practitioners and researchers will, having recognized the applicability of magic, go further on their own to explore its domain.