Relationship Between Human and Rhythmic Dynamics in the Digital Interactive Experience

Digital information connects with humans through multiple modes characterized by time and space. The development of interactive digital experiences highlights the need to develop a design methodology based on knowledge of the relationship between body, time and space. The state-of-the-art research around the topic of rhythm shows how it can be a container of knowledge for design. Through rhythm, perception acquires sensory information and translates it based on experience. Humans are used to reading rhythmic elements in space and time and are naturally influenced by them. At the social level, communities and individuals relate through rituals that are repeated over time and are punctuated by specific narrative sequences. The effects of rhythm within the fields of sociology, perception, art, motor behaviors, and physiology, testify to this inextricable link. Starting with the analysis of case studies linking rhythm and digital information, the research attempts to understand the ways in which specific digital rhythms are naturally experienced by humans. Through a biomimetic methodology, the research proposes an investigation with the aim of understanding how some rhythmic forms can activate communicative processes with users, their memory or with real spaces. The research uses a rhythmic analysis of user experience based on Cartesian time/information visualization systems. The findings highlight how the rhythmic dimension expresses instrumental design directions balancing the pervasive relationship between information and humans.