Playtest

Wow, its been way too long since I’ve posted anything, probably because I’ve had little to say apart from “still working on the tangible interfaces chapter.”

However, whilst I was doing some editing to the aforementioned chapter, I started thinking about what was the most appropriate way to refer to arguments made in the earlier parts of the chapter later in that chapter.

I had been using something along the lines of “as mentioned above….”, until I realised that ‘above’ only really works in a word processing context where the pages scroll vertically (unless of course you submit your work in the form of a physical scroll, but I think that might fall outside the submission guidelines for PhD theses).

‘Earlier’ seems more appropriate, but it brings to mind Aarseth’s (well I think it was Aarseth) point that books and such are not necessarily linear mediums, as the reader can open to any page they like if they so wish. In either case, I find it interesting that one relies on spatial relations, whilst the other draws upon temporality. Not that it really keeps me up at night though, that would be coffee.