Group 2 - Link

On 31/01/2023 by: yingqi-jia

Overview

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Instrumental interaction

Instrument
Substrate
reification

Link tool reifies the connection between slides, as well as the direction from one slide to another, into a persistent, directly-manipulatable object consisting of texts and an underline.

polymorphism

Link tool can apply the commands of connection and direction to various types of objects such as a video or a URL.

reuse

Link tool can be reused for linking between other media materials. Apply the command to splice two audio clips into one audio file.

Link tool reifies the object which has been connected with the slide with the link into a substrate.

Link tool supports inserting link once again on top of the original link. The newly linked slide is automatically sorted to the top of the link queue.

The linked audio clips are linked to the slide as a complete audio file.

  • Lo-Fi
  • Hi-Fi
  • Demos

Human-Computer Partnership

Instrument
Substrate
discoverability

Choose some text, an link icon will appear, and when hover on the icon, shows the options of file that can be linked.

expressivity

Link supports users to drag and drop the files from Windows File Explorer to the text directly, so as to create a connection between the two.

appropriability

Drag the second video near the text that has been linked to the first video, the preview of the first video will then appear. Placing the second video on the left/right ofthe previewed video will add the second video before/after the first one.

When the linking file for the text is chosen, the text will be highlighted and underlined.

According to different file types, the link tool sets different colors to highlight the linked text.

After a slide is linked to a website, it'll be embedded in the slide. The user can scroll up and down to read the content of the website.