Mapping & metaphor

Mapping is taking these aspects and shaping them.
Metaphor is comparing of an abstract output to a physical output.(ie. a digital clock, to a physical clock (w/moving hands))
Function is the mapping element in the equation, where all the details are spread out into a virtual plain and so that they can be ready for the fusion of the other components.
while Form is the metaphoric aspect of the process, a layout is created so that the "functions" may be applied.
after the juxtaposition is completed a final product can be presented.
during this process the aspect of design is needed to be taken into consideration. comprising of numerous variables.

Project and style
target and users
There are differnet Layout dimensions:ie. 3D (space), 4D (time)
In the relationship shared between (space + time) regards to the use of the object is evident.

Layout ----> interface:
ex) car dashboard
there are the gauges (projecting the information), steering wheel, gear shift (the interface elements)
Mapping --> design --> interface --> information
Exist in the same flow: interface elements (physical) + information

ex) while driving:

vibration - feel the speed (acceleration)
guages - tells the speed (km/h)
Feedback = Response
The answer of the system that is being used.
Loop - ready, on, awaiting input to produce feedback.

to every action there is always a reaction and with this taken into account the "feedback" can be recorded.
Numerous processes are occuring while driving:
looking outside,seeing gauges (speed), feeling vibration, while the entire time thoughts racing through your head,
you might be turning...
Numerous processes running at the same time but they don't have the same nature (abstract, physical)
Driving is a flow: an even distribution of all of these different processes.
Analyze --> Breaking it down --> Processes
Mapping --> spreading processes evenly on a scale.
from abstract <-----to-----> physical
Interface - a system to send instructions.
System - an IN and OUT.
Affordances - inverse casts (where and how to interact)
Behaviour of a system, to give feedback.
Form Follows Function
Cybernetics - WWII, everything in nature/the world is a system
Physical: more physicality, time and space, 24 hours (overall picture)
tells where you lie in the overall layout of the day, somewhere in those 24 hours. (time + space)(approximation)
Digital:data,pure precision,a.m. & p.m. needed to compensate
There are affordances in physical and graphical space.
Bit - 1 unit of information.