‘visualization’ Tagged Posts

Affinity Diagrams

  • August 19th, 2010
  • Posted in Diary

I know I should be writing more right now, but I’m excited to show the culmination of a lot of work… After many hours of watching user testing videos, and transcribing almost all of the words that were said, I then compiled the main points and highlights onto colored post-it notes, one color for each [ READ MORE ]

Framework Brainstorm

From yesterday’s brainstorm session in the studio, using the “Getting a Grip” tangible interaction framework as inspiration… From this brainstorm, I feel I have fine-tuned my framing even further, and come up with an idea to abstract the SUI concept in the form of a simple prototype. My TRKBRD prototype is a concrete application of [ READ MORE ]

“Three-State Model of Graphical Input”

by William A.S. Buxton (1990) “All input devices are not created equal in their capabilities, nor input techniques in their demands.” 6 Generic Transactions of User’s Intentions with a Device (Foley, Wallace, Chan 1984) select an object position an object orient an object ink (draw a line) text (enter text) value (specify a scalar value) [ READ MORE ]

Research Visualization Alpha

  • March 15th, 2010
  • Posted in Diary

At this point I have read many research articles, and processed 12 of them into the blog to visualization what I’ve learned from each one. Each article is summarized, tagged for the tag cloud, and the thoughts each one provoked are summarized too. But now what? The scientific side of me curiously wants to organize [ READ MORE ]

“Getting a Grip on Tangible Interaction”

“…A Framework on Physical Space and Social Interaction” by Eva Hornecker, Jacob Buur (2006) A framework for the interweaving of the material/physical and the social aspects of tangible interaction. Framework: Tangible Manipulation: material representations with distinct tactile qualities, which are typically physically manipulated in tangible interaction. Spatial Interaction: tangible interaction is embedded in real space, [ READ MORE ]

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