NDLI: Modeling as Craft

Content Provider	ACM Digital Library
Author	Fishwick, Paul
Abstract	Toy boats, automobiles, and planesare models that entertain and delight us inchildhood. As we grow, we might availourselves of more advanced models that aretruer to life--more real and engaging.Interactive computer games provide evengreater flexibility, while lacking in tactilefeedback and the sort of physical immersionwe expect from every day experience. Modelsthat are used in simulation for buildingsoftware and dynamic systems can be equallyas immersive, with a variety of aestheticfeatures. For example, a factory floor modelcan achieve high degrees of realism using 2Dand 3D visualization.The factory floor, like the model plane, isiconic in representation. It is a scale model.But what of the more mathematical models,including software? The structures in thesemodels, unlike with the iconic nature of scalemodeling, employ symbolic relations whereone object refers to another withoutnecessarily resembling it. We discuss aresearch project, with examples, to show thatone can retain the abstraction and rigorexpected from mathematical structure, whilesimultaneously achieving the benefits of thesort of aesthetics, styles, and engagement thatwe experience with physical models andcomputer games.
File Format	PDF
ISBN	0769519113
Language	English
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Publisher Date	2003-03-30
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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1	Ministry of Education (GoI), Department of Higher Education	Sanctioning Authority	https://www.education.gov.in/ict-initiatives
2	Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	Host Institute of the Project: The host institute of the project is responsible for providing infrastructure support and hosting the project	https://www.iitkgp.ac.in
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Modeling as Craft