Scream, the scream that shakes the interface.

Scream

What to aseptic graphical interfaces miss something substantial is clear looking at all the customizations and aesthetic variations to which they are subjected by daring small software house. But these maquillage rarely go to touch the foundations of the desktop metaphor and the basic interaction: mouse, click, windows and menus. To give a jolt, as such, this paradigm is that software written by Amy Alexander, already the author of such projects as The Post-PATRIOT Magnetic Motto Maker , Interview Yourself , Netsong , Extreme Whitespace and CyberSpaceLand . In Scream , in fact, the input digitized voice from the microphone is converted into actions of the windows. The liberating scream or angry issued his lungs makes it dance and switch between open windows on the screen, causing a visible mess with the information. Used simultaneously, for example in front of a web page or unbearable odious, makes the feedback of the machine finally proportional to the physical reaction. Contrariamene reactions programmed the voice input operating systems (always minimal and clumsy), this encoding of a signal instinctive (the scream), connects the stomach to the machine, connecting nerves with windows. The sound goes to work directly on the apparatus Windows visual, disturbing its definitely predictable behaviors. The author, finally, it also suggests an usage further ludico (a throat tired), ie in conjunction with an input musical scramble continuously place and order of the windows, as well as they can do so as well slammed doors and litigation in progress.