der hess » research http://blog.derhess.de am medialen werkeln Wed, 01 Feb 2012 12:00:38 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 My most important Twitter Messages #12 http://blog.derhess.de/2011/11/26/my-most-important-twitter-messages-12/ http://blog.derhess.de/2011/11/26/my-most-important-twitter-messages-12/#comments Sat, 26 Nov 2011 20:45:57 +0000 admin http://blog.derhess.de/?p=1723
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    • ]]>     Twitter von der hess
    A small summary of my Twitter messages from August - November 2011:

    Allgemein (General)

    Generative Art:

    • Our lecture from the "Design the Future" series at Carnegie Mellon University is now online

    Info Design and Visualization

    UX and Interaction Design:

    Projekte und Experimente (Projects and experiments)

    Neue Technologie (new Technologies)

    Programmierung und Software Design (Programming)

    Physical Computing

    Game Developing:

    Flash and Flex

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  • My most important Twitter Messages #6
  • My most important Twitter Messages #4
  • My most important Twitter Messages #5
    • ]]>     Twitter von der hess
    A small summary of my Twitter messages from June - August 2011:

    Allgemein (General)

    Generative Art:

    Info Design and Visualization

    UX and Interaction Design:

    Projekte und Experimente (Projects and experiments)

    Neue Technologie (new Technologies)

    Programmierung und Software Design (Programming)

    Physical Computing

    Game Developing:

    Flash and Flex

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    ]]>     http://blog.derhess.de/2011/08/31/my-most-important-twitter-messages-11-2/feed/ 0 "     Moodumbrella – a self em-powered device for well-being http://blog.derhess.de/2011/05/05/moodumbrella-a-self-em-powered-device-for-well-being/ http://blog.derhess.de/2011/05/05/moodumbrella-a-self-em-powered-device-for-well-being/#comments Thu, 05 May 2011 10:00:22 +0000 admin http://blog.derhess.de/?p=1560
  • Arduino Prototype: The “plate” Gaming Device
  • My most important Twitter Messages #5
  • My most important Twitter Messages #6
    • ]]>     During the lectures Fashionable Technology I and II from Sabine Seymour, Andrea Suter and me improved the common usage of an umbrella. In the end we developed a concept of a self em-powered device for people’s well being. Our umbrella using the approaches of light therapy and autonomous power resources.

    moodumbrella prototype

    moodumbrella

    moodumbrella detail

    moodumbrella detail

    moodumbrella in use

    moodumbrella in use

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    We created a prototype for interviews and user testings and we made a survey in Linz during a rainy day. The Austrain people were very sceptical and did not want to be asked about their happiness on rainy days. However, we were able to get some very useful feedback. The video below will show you examples of the feedback mentioned.

    In the end we wrote paper about the details of light therapy and discussing mobile energy resources for smart devices.

    Download the moodumbrella paper

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    ]]>     http://blog.derhess.de/2011/05/05/moodumbrella-a-self-em-powered-device-for-well-being/feed/ 3 "     Book review: Form + Code (Generative Art & Design) http://blog.derhess.de/2011/01/18/book-review-form-code-generative-art/ http://blog.derhess.de/2011/01/18/book-review-form-code-generative-art/#comments Tue, 18 Jan 2011 13:44:32 +0000 admin http://blog.derhess.de/?p=1483
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    • ]]>     Form + Code Title

    The last few weeks I did some research on the trendy topic generative art and design. I was very enthusiastically for reading the Form + Code book from Casey Reas, Chandler McWilliams, and the agency LUST.

    The content of this book is very well structured. The first chapters introduces programming and the special characteristics of computers in design and art very well. I really appreciate it, that they chose the more concept introduction, then a technical focus. For this reason the reader gets a very good picture why the computer and programming could be helpful for creating new experiences. The transition from the introduction into the toolbox of creative coding is perfectly done. They explained the concepts of Repeat, Transform, Parameterize, Visualize, Simulate pretty good. Especially, the chosen examples of artworks for the various toolboxes are very appropriate. Therefore this book is a very useful resource for research in a scientific environment. The positive argument is also the little weakness of this book. In a theoretical terms everything is fine. The reader gets a very good introduction in this new topic. In practical terms the reader is very often alone with the code examples. Only two or four pages are too less for inexperienced programmers and designers. They are not going to understand and even learn so much from these code examples. The book delivers so much good content, but on the practical site if failed for me. For German-speaking and French-speaking people it is not worse, because the book Generative Gestaltung (review comes soon) is the perfect complement for this book. The book Generative Gestaltung has got some minor weakness on theoretical aspects, but the practical part and the learning from code is perfectly done!

    However, this book belongs to every book collection of visual programmers, new media artists and designers. It is definitely the money worth! I enjoyed the reading very much.

    Reminder  for Flashers:

    This books reminds me strongly on the creative coding beginnings, like it was with Flash 4, 5 and 6. Flashers, please don't forget your roots! Have also a look on the the old Flash Math Creativity Books (edition 2). Further good code examples are available on Liquid Journey. Joshua Davis and Branden Hall created a very good Flash library for generative design. Check out their Hype Framework!

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  • My most important Twitter Messages #5
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  • My most important Twitter Messages #11
    • ]]>     Twitter von der hess
    A small summary of my Twitter messages from October - December 2010:

    Allgemein (General)

    Generative Art:

    Info Design and Visualization

    UX and Interaction Design:

    Projekte und Experimente (Projects and experiments)

    Neue Technologie (new Technologies)

    Programmierung und Software Design (Programming)

    Mobile Development

    Game Developing:

    Flash and Flex

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    ]]>     http://blog.derhess.de/2010/12/23/my-most-important-twitter-messages-8/feed/ 0 "     Academic research in (multi-touch) gestures for screen interfaces http://blog.derhess.de/2010/12/13/academic-research-in-multi-touch-gestures-for-screen-interfaces/ http://blog.derhess.de/2010/12/13/academic-research-in-multi-touch-gestures-for-screen-interfaces/#comments Mon, 13 Dec 2010 12:46:50 +0000 admin http://blog.derhess.de/?p=1402
  • Technical Paper: Designing gestures for (multi-touch) screens
    • ]]>     Last semester I joined the Journal Club lecture at our University. I continued my research in gesture based interaction for screen-based environments. This little paper research was based on the question how the screen size influences the gesture design. In the end I created a short presentation about important conferences for gesture design, and summarized the results of 4 papers. Thanks to Martin Kaltenbrunner for his useful advices!

    Multi(Touch) Gesture Research

    View more presentations from Florian Weil.

    Furthermore, I found a bunch of very interesting papers for designing gestures in screen-based environments. I want to share these papers with you. You are welcome to add comments about the papers or recommend other nice projects! (use the tooltip for only reading the titles of the papers)

    Gesture design in general

    Andrew Bragdon, Robert Zeleznik, Brian Williamson, Timothy Miller, and Joseph J. LaViola, Jr.. 2009. GestureBar: improving the approachability of gesture-based interfaces. In Proceedings of the 27th international conference on Human factors in computing systems (CHI '09). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 2269-2278.

    Justin Matejka, Tovi Grossman, Jessica Lo, and George Fitzmaurice. 2009. The design and evaluation of multi-finger mouse emulation techniques. In Proceedings of the 27th international conference on Human factors in computing systems (CHI '09). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 1073-1082.

    Jacob O. Wobbrock, Meredith Ringel Morris, and Andrew D. Wilson. 2009. User-defined gestures for surface computing. In Proceedings of the 27th international conference on Human factors in computing systems (CHI '09). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 1083-1092.

    Stößel, C.; Wandke, H. & Blessing, L. Kopp, S. & Wachsmuth, I. (Eds.) Gestural Interfaces for Elderly Users: Help or Hindrance? Gesture in Embodied Communication and Human-Computer Interaction, Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, 2010, 5934, 269-280

    Kenrick Kin, Maneesh Agrawala, and Tony DeRose. 2009. Determining the Benefits of Direct-Touch, Bimanual, and Multifinger Input on a Multitouch Workstation

    Gesture design for small screens

    Anne Roudaut, Eric Lecolinet, and Yves Guiard. 2009. MicroRolls: expanding touch-screen input vocabulary by distinguishing rolls vs. slides of the thumb. In Proceedings of the 27th international conference on Human factors in computing systems (CHI '09). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 927-936.

    Patrick Baudisch and Gerry Chu. 2009. Back-of-device interaction allows creating very small touch devices. In Proceedings of the 27th international conference on Human factors in computing systems (CHI '09). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 1923-1932.

    Gesture design for medium screens

    Tomer Moscovich and John F. Hughes. 2008. Indirect mappings of multi-touch input using one and two hands. In Proceeding of the twenty-sixth annual SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems (CHI '08). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 1275-1284.

    Chi Tai Dang, Martin Straub, and Elisabeth Andre;. 2009. Hand distinction for multi-touch tabletop interaction. In Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces (ITS '09). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 101-108.

    Dustin Freeman, Hrvoje Benko, Meredith Ringel Morris, and Daniel Wigdor. 2009. ShadowGuides: visualizations for in-situ learning of multi-touch and whole-hand gestures. In Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces (ITS '09). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 165-172

    Thomas Seifried, Michael Haller, Stacey D. Scott, Florian Perteneder, Christian Rendl, Daisuke Sakamoto, and Masahiko Inami. 2009. CRISTAL: a collaborative home media and device controller based on a multi-touch display. In Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces (ITS '09). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 33-40.

    Gesture design for big screens

    Peter Peltonen, Esko Kurvinen, Antti Salovaara, Giulio Jacucci, Tommi Ilmonen, John Evans, Antti Oulasvirta, and Petri Saarikko. 2008. It's Mine, Don't Touch!: interactions at a large multi-touch display in a city centre. In Proceeding of the twenty-sixth annual SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems (CHI '08). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 1285-1294.

    Masatomo Kobayashi and Takeo Igarashi. 2008. Ninja cursors: using multiple cursors to assist target acquisition on large screens. In Proceeding of the twenty-sixth annual SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems (CHI '08). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 949-958.

    Martha Abednego, Joong-Ho Lee, Won Moon, and Ji-Hyung Park. 2009. I-Grabber: expanding physical reach in a large-display tabletop environment through the use of a virtual grabber. In Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces (ITS '09). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 61-64.

    Alexander Schick, Florian van de Camp, Joris Ijsselmuiden, and Rainer Stiefelhagen. 2009. Extending touch: towards interaction with large-scale surfaces. In Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces (ITS '09). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 117-124

    Gesture design for pen/stylus devices

    Dzimitry Aliakseyeu, Pourang Irani, Andres Lucero, and Sriram Subramanian. 2008. Multi-flick: an evaluation of flick-based scrolling techniques for pen interfaces. In Proceeding of the twenty-sixth annual SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems (CHI '08). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 1689-1698

    Caroline Appert and Shumin Zhai. 2009. Using strokes as command shortcuts: cognitive benefits and toolkit support. In Proceedings of the 27th international conference on Human factors in computing systems (CHI '09). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 2289-2298

    Mathias Frisch, Jens Heydekorn, and Raimund Dachselt. 2009. Investigating multi-touch and pen gestures for diagram editing on interactive surfaces. In Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces (ITS '09). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 149-156.

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  • Academic research in (multi-touch) gestures for screen interfaces
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    • ]]>     For several months I worked on technical paper about designing gestures for screen-based environments. Finally, it is finished and you can read it. Here is the abstract:

    This paper analyses gesture design for pointing devices in screen-based environments. By exploring design patterns the analysis investigated the gesture design of five different end-user products: Desktop operating systems, mobile operating systems, 3rd Party software, small software products, and common hardware products. The beginning of the paper defines what a gesture is, and the various kinds of gestures. Afterwards the analysis merges the gesture design results with the basic commands for pointing devices. This approach points out which gestures are often used, and in which context they are used. The results give interaction designers and software engineers a guide for implementing gestures in their own products. Furthermore, the paper proposes solutions for gesture documentation, and a conceptual framework for complicated gestures. The last section takes an industrial design perspective on pointing devices as an input channel. It discusses the evolution of interface design from a hardware driven to a software driven approach.

    Please note:

    Unfortunately, I got sick on a long-term disease. Therefore it took me so long for writing this paper and that is also the reason why the data of the analysis is from January of 2010. However, in my opinion the results of my analysis are still valid. For more up-to-date data, please check the Touch Gesture Reference from LukeW.

    Acknowledgement:

    I am very happy about the support from my teachers, friends, and fellow students. Big thanks to Mahir M. Yavuz and Mathias Stäbler for the content feedback. Vesela Mihaylova for a great Adobe Illustrator and graphic design support. Tim Devine for transforming over 30 pages of my bad english in a readable form, and marking some unclear points of my paper. Dudes, thank you so much!

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    • ]]>     The book Designing Interaction from Bill Moggridge was already published in 2006. Even it is quite old for a technology book the content is still valid. The first six chapters give a perfect history background of human-computer interaction. The evolution of input devices and the computer itself is very good explained. Also the original comments from the designers and engineers are very interesting to read.  In the end the reader gets a very good introduction how and why the computer evolved as it is today. Even the described history is a strongly based on the authors view.  The chapters Adopting Technology and Multisensory and Multimedia gives a nice introduction into tangible interaction. It also helps beginners to understand how to leave the desktop metaphor. The whole book describes very easily how product designer, industrial designer, psychologist and engineers working together for developing the new devices. The texts about their development and thinking processes gives a very good insight. The last chapters about The Internet, Futures and Alternatives Nows, and People and Prototypes are nice to read, but with some comments I can't agree. For this reason, the aspects of Emotional Design and Prototyping are little bit weak in my opinion. However, reading the first six chapters is very useful for human-computer interaction beginners. It makes their knowledge around the history of Interaction Design more stable. The last chapters are nice to read, but not very obligatory. Unfortunately, the multimedia CD of the book I never really checked.  So I can't say if it is good or not. For professional interaction designer is almost nothing new in this book, so I can't recommend it for them.

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  • Book review: Designing Interactions
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  • My most important Twitter Messages #6
    • ]]>     In my class PublicSpaces 2.0 from the space & design strategies department we discussed the connections between social media and public spaces. Also some design theory aspects were included into the discussion. In my case I introduced the lifestyle of hermits. Hermits create a kind of subspaces in urban or nature environments. These subspaces have got their own system and rules. Our current culture is characterized by fast technical developments and accelerated lifestyles. That includes travelling over big distances, moving often, huge information perception via social media services, etc.  In some life periods these circumstances are not healthy. They cause long-term stress symptoms, losing creativity and so on. In this case the lifestyle of hermits can give an inspiration for creating a subspace in our urban environment.  A subspace, which minimize these aspects of acceleration and creating an appropriate environment for each individual. In my presentation and in my paper I don't say that the solitary lifestyle of the hermits is optimal. A good environment has to provide also a stable social enviromnent with friends and partners. I am just using the hermit lifestyle for some design approaches and for getting inspired.

    View more presentations from Florian Weil.

    Furthermore, I describe in my paper how people become unconsciously and consciously an hermit. Becoming unconsciously a hermit could lead to some conflicts in our society. The key aspects of Reduction and Filtering in designing Intertactive Media play an important role for solving this issues. More detailed explanations of my thoughts are written down in my PDF paper.

    PDF PAPER: Hermits in our digital Age

    Links of my presentation

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  • My most important Twitter Messages #4
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    • ]]>     Twitter von der hess
    A small summary of my Twitter messages from March - June 2010:

    Allgemein (General)

    Generative Art:

    Info Design and Visualization

    UX and Interaction Design:

    Projekte und Experimente (Projects and experiments)

    Neue Technologie (new Technologies)

    Programmierung und Software Design (Programming)

    Physical Computing

    Game Developing:

    Flash and Flex

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