Seven Master of Arts students from Constance at the University of Applied Sciences Communication Design faculty will be working on design research concerning multi-touch interfaces summer term 2008. Kicking off the project ...
1. Inspiration and History: http://www.slideshare.net/haraldf/touch-research-1-inspiration
2. HCI Details: http://www.slideshare.net/haraldf/touch-research-2-hci-details
3. A Research Paper: http://www.slideshare.net/haraldf/touch-research-3
10. ⁄ Next Milestone (#1)
⁄ Understand the history of human computer interfaces
⁄ Form groups of 1 or 2
⁄ Choose a topic
⁄ Prepare a 15-minute presentation
12. 1. How did humans interact with computers between 1940
and 1970? Were there computers anyway?
⁄ Dani & Florian
2. How could one interact via a command line interface?
Disadvantages? Advantages?
⁄ Fan
13. 3. Who invented the mouse? How did ancient mice look like?
⁄ Laura & Felix
5. Are there alternatives to the mouse?
⁄ Joel
14. 5. Present the iPhone. What is special concerning HCI?
⁄ Liesa
7. Present Bill Buxton’s overview of multi-touch.
⁄ Stefan
19. 1. How did humans interact with computers between 1940
and 1970? Were there computers anyway?
⁄ Dani & Florian
⁄ Results: Binary; Transistors & ICs; there was always a keyboard!;
we had no GUI before 1970
2. How could one interact via a command line interface?
Disadvantages? Advantages?
⁄ Fan
⁄ Results: You need to control technology!; a CLI can be faster/ more
efficient; you need to speak the language
20. 3. Who invented the mouse? How did ancient mice look like?
⁄ Laura & Felix
⁄ Results: Technology is always invented for military purposes; there
was no need for the (existing) mouse for quite some time; it was
developed for zero gravity
5. Are there alternatives to the mouse?
⁄ Joel
⁄ Results: The trackball has the highest market share among the rest of
pointing devices; speech control works only in silence; brain mouse
might be the future!
21. 5. Present the iPhone. What is special concerning HCI?
⁄ Liesa
⁄ Results: Sometimes, using fingers is less efficient; 2 fingers is the
innovation; there is only one hardware interface element left
7. Present Bill Buxton’s overview of multi-touch.
⁄ Stefan
24. ⁄ 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