Archive for March, 2010

“SmartPad”

“…A Finger-Sensing Keypad for Mobile Interaction” by Jun Rekimoto, Takaaki Ishizawa, Haruo Oba (CHI 2003) “…a new input device for mobile computers that is an enhanced physical keypad by a finger position sensor.” “…combines two input sensors; one is a normal physical keypad, and the other is a finger position sensor based on capacitive sensing.” [ READ MORE ]

“Touch&Type”

“…A Novel Pointing Device for Notebook Computers” by W. Fallot-Burghardt, M. Fjeld, C. Speirs, S. Ziegenspeck, H. Krueger, T. Läubli (NordiCHI 2006) “…combines a conventional keyboard with an extended touch pad whereby the touch pad’s sensitive area is formed by the surface of the keys themselves and thus can be made as large as the [ READ MORE ]

“Layered Touch Panel”

“…The Input Device with Two Touch Panel Layers” by Yujin Tsukada, Takeshi Hoshino (CHI 2002) “…two touch panel layers, so that it is able to distinguish two touch states such as ‘finger on screen’ and ‘finger above screen’.” Adds an invisible infrared field about 20mm above the physical touch screen. Allows for a “rollover effect” [ READ MORE ]

“System with a Touch Screen and a Digitizing Tablet”

“…both integrated in an input device” Patent #5402151 (Google Patents) “…multipurpose data input device formed by a touch screen and a digitizing tablet integrated with one another, which are activatable independently of each other by proper stimuli.” My thoughts: My initial thought was that this patent illustrated my thesis idea of “stacking inputs”, but further understanding [ READ MORE ]

“Technical Power and Cultural Demand”

“…The decline of teh age of mechanisation and the discovery of complexity.” by Ezio Manzini (reference) “Each solution comes from another; each innovative product represents a diversion from existing ones, and begins with their remake.” “Man’s activity has reached other dimensional levels, has penetrated into spaces and times that we might imagine, but not understand.” [ READ MORE ]

What I’ve Learned #1: Collaboration

Something I’ve been meaning to document for awhile, and thought now is better than never… A design always gets better with collaboration. Collaboration will always lead to a better design[ READ MORE ]

“Point of No Return” Status Update

  • March 4th, 2010
  • Posted in Diary

(This post is still open and being actively edited, as a virtual whiteboard of ideas…) Earlier this year, my time was occupied by preparing for this thesis and preparing for the TRKBRD presentation at the IxDA conference. I spent time upgrading the hardware and software of the TRKBRD, and writing and creating my slides. Even [ READ MORE ]

TRKBRD at IxDA ’10 Conference

On February 7th, 2010, I presented at the Interaction Designer’s Association’s (IxDA.org) 2010 “Interaction” conference. In my session, titled “TRKBRD: From Idea to Conception with Physical Prototyping”, I told the story of my project from start to finish and then demonstrated my TRKBRD physical prototype. Even though I was quite nervous to be presenting to [ READ MORE ]

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