PS-INP-175 · r1
INPUT
OBSERVED
ENGAGED
VIEWPOINT AS A TASK
Being able to look from anywhere means being answerable for looking from the right place.
01 DEFINITION
Condition in which the operator controls where the view is taken from, so choosing it becomes work of its own, and a viewpoint that was right a moment ago becomes the reason something was not seen, without anything announcing the change.
02 CONDITIONS
UNCERTAINTY
MISSING
Nothing indicates that the current viewpoint has stopped being the right one.
TIME PRESSURE
HIGH
Repositioning happens during the interval the repositioning was meant to serve.
ERROR ASYMMETRY
ASYMMETRIC
A view moved needlessly and a view left in the wrong place carry different costs.
OPERATOR STATE
CONCURRENT
Operating the view and doing the work the view is for happen at the same time.
03 WHERE IT APPEARS
MEDICALMoving through a reconstructed volume to find the right view is done during the procedure it is meant to support.
CONSTRUCTIONNavigating a model to the place in question is a skill separate from judging what is there once you arrive.
INDUSTRIALSelecting which view a bank of cameras shows is itself the work, and the wrong selection is indistinguishable from nothing happening.
LOGISTICSChoosing the scale and the frame of a network view decides what is visible, and the choosing happens while the network changes.
AI EXP.What a system is asked to show is a question in its own right, and a poorly framed one returns a confident answer about the wrong region.
DEFENSEPositioning the view is done by hand during the interval in which the thing being viewed is decided.
04 WHAT AEON WORKED THROUGH HERE
Freedom to move the view was the point of building it in three dimensions, and it turned out to be a second job carried out during the first. The operator could be looking from exactly the wrong place with everything working correctly. The work went into what the view may do without being asked, and what it must never do while being watched.
What stays unresolved is when a view should move itself — a system that repositions on the operator's behalf takes away the one thing they were certain of, which is where they were looking from.