Touch Research

A project for Communication Design M1

HTWG Constance

Summer Term 2008

Part 0: Introduction, Topics, and Student Presentations (Class 1 and 2)

Introduction

Me, Myself, and I

You!

Participants

Dani Costa Filipe

Felix Seyfarth

Fan Zhang

Florian Roebig

Joel Lück

Laura Pabst

Liesa Maier

Stefan Herzet

Time and Place

On Wednesdays

8:45 AM – 11:15 AM

M003

Spaces

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

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

Phase 1: Inspiration

Goal for the Next Session

Touch Tisch -> Touch History

A little bit of history …

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

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

3. Mouse: Who invented the mouse? How did ancient mice look like?

4. Alternatives: Are there alternatives to the mouse?

5. iPhone: Present the iPhone. What is special concerning HCI?

6. Bill Buxton: Present Bill Buxton’s overview of multi-touch.

Links

Konrad Zuse http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konrad_Zuse

ENIAC http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ENIAC

CLI http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Command_line_interface

Douglas Engelbart http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Engelbart

Finger gestures, mouse alternatives discussion on Fog Creek Software http://discuss.fogcreek.com/joelonsoftware/default.asp?cmd=show&ixPost=56366

iPhone ad http://www.apple.com/iphone/ads/ad5/

Edward Tufte’s iPhone video http://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/iphone-video.adp

Bill Buxton on multi-touch http://www.billbuxton.com/multitouchOverview.html

Four multi-touch videos

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

Student Presentations

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

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

3. Mouse: Who invented the mouse? How did ancient mice look like?

4. Alternatives: Are there alternatives to the mouse?

5. iPhone: Present the iPhone. What is special concerning HCI?

6. Bill Buxton: Present Bill Buxton’s overview of multi-touch.

Credits

Via Creative Commons on flickr:

Libraryman www.flickr.com/libraryman/718450202/

Photocapy www.flickr.com/photocapy/250355140/

Philippe Tarbouriech www.flickr.com/phitar/7201140/

Dezz www.flickr.com/residae/2560241604/

Joe www.flickr.com/joesflickr/711358450/

Mike Bitzenhofer www.flickr.com/bitzcelt/1450900070/

Derrick Mealiffe www.flickr.com/dmealiffe/171720479/

Maurizio D'Arrigo www.flickr.com/keylosa/184606430/

Cheon Fong Liew www.flickr.com/liewcf/894035077/

Library of Congress www.flickr.com/library_of_congress/2516566660/

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