This week we worked on our CHI paper using the CHI 2015 Works in Progress template. We put a focus on concentrating on the wider use cases of our interactive device and implications of such a device...
Projectagami CHI Work In Progress Paper
19 December 2014
12 December 2014
Projectagami Final Literature Review
After the presentation of our device to the HCI group, we began to work on our CHI work in progress paper.
To do this, we felt it best to do a more extensive literature review. The main areas we focused...
8 December 2014
Projectagami Demo Preparation
Today, we finalised our demonstration in preparation for our demo tomorrow! We use the Wizard of Oz technique to demonstrate our proof of concept of a self contained device that can be folded with high fidelity.
Looking forward to presenting this tomorr...
30 November 2014
Week 4 of The Build: Part 2 - Use-Cases
Use-cases:
Our interactive device is all about how we will interact with devices in the future that can transform into different shapes. Therefore, we will explore novel ways of interacting with such...
Week 4 of The Build: Part 1 - Paper Tracking & Projection
This week, we made big steps in tracking and projecting onto paper.
We also started developing the use-cases that we will demonstrate. I'll
start with paper tracking.
Paper tracking & projection:
After
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21 November 2014
Week 3 of The Build
Although we seemed to make good progress last week, the majority of our efforts this week involved having to reimplement a lot of what we had already done and thought we had completed.
We had calibration...
20 November 2014
Pressages: Augmenting Phone Calls With Non-Verbal Messages
This week, we had a lecture from Eve Hoggan, co-author of "Pressages: Augmenting Phone Calls With Non-Verbal Messages" [1]. She discussed her research on ForcePhone which allows the sending of non-verbal...
15 November 2014
Week 2 of The Build
This week we focused on building a rig to hold the Kinect and projector and continued to work on tracking the paper.
When building our rig, we knew it had to be able to support the weight of the...
7 November 2014
The Start of Implementation
After completing a literature review the previous week, my group and I began getting to grips with implementing our interactive device.
To begin with, we felt there were two key parts to the project...
25 October 2014
Flexible Surfaces Interaction - Group Plan & Literature Review
This is our new idea! After our initial brainstorming sessions and deeper literature reviews, we have chosen to now focus on Flexible Surface Interaction as we think there is less research in...
24 October 2014
In the Literature: Flexible Surfaces & Displays
After further thought, my group have decided to explore flexible surfaces and displays. We did not feel that the wearable ring idea had enough scope to make a really good interactive device.
In recent...
22 October 2014
Further Idea Discussions - Workshop 2
This week's workshop gave my group the opportunity to further discuss our ideas and also try out some hardware. Available was an Ardiuno Kit, Intel Galileo, Kinect Sensor, Leap Motion and Oculus Rift.
The...
19 October 2014
Group Post on 3 workshop ideas
Idea 1: Customisable virtual keyboard
Idea 2: Smart Pen
Idea 3: Ring based interaction
Customisable virtual keyboard
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