Touch Research 0: Class and Presentations

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Touch Research / A Project / Communication Design M1 / HTWG Constance

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Seven Master of Arts students from Constance at the University of Applied Sciences Communication Design faculty will be working on design research concerning multi-touch interfaces summer term 2008. Kicking off the project ...

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Touch Research

⁄  A Project ⁄  Communication

Design M1 ⁄  HTWG Constance

Introduction

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⁄  Dani Costa Filipe ⁄  Felix Seyfarth ⁄  Fan Zhang ⁄  Florian Roebig ⁄  Joel Lück ⁄  Laura Pabst ⁄  Liesa Maier ⁄  Stefan Herzet

⁄  On Wednesdays ⁄  8:45 AM - 11:15 AM

⁄  M003

⁄  Organization & Private Presentations/ Results: http://ww.serverkd.de

⁄  Public Results: http://tinyurl.com/4ufc7c and http://www.slideshare.net/haraldf

P1: Inspiration

Goal

⁄  Next Milestone (#1) ⁄  Understand the history of human computer interfaces ⁄  Form groups of 1 or 2 ⁄  Choose a topic ⁄  Prepare a 15-minute presentation

History

1.  How did humans interact with computers between 1940 and 1970? Were there computers anyway?

⁄  Dani & Florian

2.  How could one interact via a command line interface? Disadvantages? Advantages?

⁄  Fan

3.  Who invented the mouse? How did ancient mice look like? ⁄  Laura & Felix

5.  Are there alternatives to the mouse? ⁄  Joel

5.  Present the iPhone. What is special concerning HCI? ⁄  Liesa

7.  Present Bill Buxton’s overview of multi-touch. ⁄  Stefan

Inspirational Links

⁄  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konrad_Zuse ⁄  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ENIAC ⁄  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Command_line_interface

⁄  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Engelbart

⁄  http://discuss.fogcreek.com/joelonsoftware/default.asp?cmd=show&ixPost=56366

⁄  http://www.apple.com/iphone/ads/ad5/ ⁄  http://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/iphone-video.adp

⁄  http://www.billbuxton.com/multitouchOverview.html

⁄  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcKqyn-gUbY ⁄  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Id43juZ3_o0 ⁄  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4Kl3_aU1bY ⁄  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttQOQDu-IQs

Presentations

1.  How did humans interact with computers between 1940 and 1970? Were there computers anyway?

⁄  Dani & Florian ⁄  Results: Binary; Transistors & ICs; there was always a keyboard!;

we had no GUI before 1970

2.  How could one interact via a command line interface? Disadvantages? Advantages?

⁄  Fan ⁄  Results: You need to control technology!; a CLI can be faster/ more

efficient; you need to speak the language

3.  Who invented the mouse? How did ancient mice look like? ⁄  Laura & Felix ⁄  Results: Technology is always invented for military purposes; there

was no need for the (existing) mouse for quite some time; it was developed for zero gravity

5.  Are there alternatives to the mouse? ⁄  Joel ⁄  Results: The trackball has the highest market share among the rest of

pointing devices; speech control works only in silence; brain mouse might be the future!

5.  Present the iPhone. What is special concerning HCI? ⁄  Liesa ⁄  Results: Sometimes, using fingers is less efficient; 2 fingers is the

innovation; there is only one hardware interface element left

7.  Present Bill Buxton’s overview of multi-touch. ⁄  Stefan

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⁄  University of Applied Sciences Constance, Faculty for Communication Design, Project “Touch Research”: ⁄  http://www.htwg-konstanz.de ⁄  http://www.kd.fh-konstanz.de/dina8/daten_e.php?wodenn=will ⁄  http://www.felgner.ch/2008/04/touch_research.html