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As part of the research project Open Data Cloud Services (ODCS), we have been trying to overcome some of the limitations introduced through the heterogeneity of spatial open government data (sOGD). In this paper we describe some of the challenges of sODG and one of the tools we built to spatially organize heterogenous sOGD, to make it easier for users to find data and automatically integrate it into existing data structures and in the future allow for cross-dataset spatial analysis.
Das Design von Kommunikationsmitteln und Kommunikationsprozessen ist im Verlauf der letzten 100 Jahre zu einem vielgestaltigen farbenfrohen Gewebe gewachsen, welches die gesammte Gesellschaft durchwirkt und allgegenwärtig beiläufig durchschimmert oder auch kraftvoll aufleuchtet. Der Bedarf an gestalterischer Differenzierung ist in dieser Zeit in mehrfachter Hinsicht geradezu explodiert.
Anlässlich des hundertsten Gründungsjubiläums des BDG Berufsverband der Deutschen Kommunikationsdesigner e.V. werden verschiedene Facetten dieser Entwicklung von verschiedenen Autor/innen betrachtet.
What is inspiration? Can there be a method for finding inspiration? “Inspired by Method: Creative Tools for the Design Process” is both a guide to and a source of inspiration. Designing involves individuality and a systematic approach, which we may apply consciously or subconsciously, depending on the project. The 5D-method for inspiration, created by Alexandra Martini, is an incisive little tool that you can use in any design process. It takes away the fear of starting a new project. This method uses the following five dimensions: Formal-Aesthetic Dimension, Haptic Dimension, Production Dimension, Cultural Dimension and Interactive Dimension. It will help you analyse, experiment with and realise your ideas. The first phase of the book will get you started.
The second phase encourages you to experiment and explore some unusual paths. Classical principles, such as composition and proportion, are interwoven with contemporary manufacturing processes such as 3D printing and aspects of human-machine interaction.
For all budding creatives who are involved with design, in any way, that want to deepen their knowledge and intellectual portfolio professionally and develop their design skills further. “Inspired by Method: Creative Tools for the Design Process” provides orientation, guidance, methodology and a soft process algorithm.
Nachtalb
(2022)
Nachtalb is an immersive interface that enables brain-to-brain interaction using multisensory feedback. With the help of the g.tec Unicorn Hybrid Black brain-computer-interface (BCI), brain-activity-data is measured and translated visually with the Oculus Quest 2, tactilely with the bHaptics TactSuit and auditorily with 3D Sound. This intends to create a feedback loop that turns brain activity from data-input into sensory output which directly influences the brain activity data-input again.
In Case You Don’t Know What To Play is a framework for designing a Virtual Reality application that uses spatial distortion to influence the user’s visual perception and ultimately shall manipulate their sense of time. Spatial orientation allows us to judge distances regarding their temporal component. In particular, in self-motion we can estimate the duration it takes to cover a given distance, since time and spatial perception are connected. This connection can be broken with the help of Virtual Reality technology and a perceptual conflict can be created.
Surprise Machines is a project of experimental museology that sets out to visualize the entire image collection of the Harvard Art Museums, with a view to opening up unexpected vistas on more than 200,000 objects usually inaccessible to visitors. The project is part of the exhibition organized by metaLAB (at) Harvard entitled Curatorial A(i)gents and explores the limits of artificial intelligence to display a large set of images and create surprise among visitors. To achieve this feeling of surprise, a choreographic interface was designed to connect the audience’s movement with several unique views of the collection.
Prototyping inconvenience : a pedagogical experiment on designing for debate in design education
(2022)
With design having more impact than ever, there is an increased need for critical inquiries into design research and education that engage designers to question established disciplinary assumptions. One prevailing myth is the convenience ideal: the obsession with comfort, efficiency, smoothness, and smartness that relates to a trend of envisioning super-convenient futures. By combining iterative prototyping, anti-solutionist strategies, and tactics of critical and speculative design, we built a counter-approach to conventional design processes: Inconvenient Design. With convenience as the topic for debate, we explored its potential in the course Stranger Things–Prototyping Inconvenience. This paper provides an overview of the approach and course format, using examples of student projects to illustrate how it encouraged them to reflect and debate directly in the design process in a tangible way, enabling them to craft alternatives. Lastly, we discuss the opportunities our methodological approach can bring to design research and education.
Algorithmen & Zeichen
(2021)
Über sechs Jahrzehnte hat sich Frieder Nake im Spannungsfeld von Informatik, Semiotik, Kunst und Kulturtheorie mit der Gegenwart des Computers auseinandergesetzt: in Sprache und Code, mit Texten und Bildern, die in diesem Band zum ersten Mal exemplarisch gebündelt werden. Damit liegt allerdings nicht nur ein lange vermisster Rückblick auf Nakes öffnende Ansätze, provozierende Debattenbeiträge und radikale künstlerische Konsequenzen vor. Zugleich demonstriert »Algorithmen & Zeichen«, wie aktuell die hier versammelten und mit Einleitungen der Herausgeber*innen versehenen Arbeiten sind. Für die gegenwärtigen Prozesse der Digitalisierung stellen sich hier grundsätzliche Fragen und zeigen sich überraschende Anschlüsse zu laufenden Debatten.
Information management and content governance in large corporations is an ongoing challenge. As a case study, we present the adaptation of the elastic lists facet browser for browsing and analysing large resource collections in an intranet of a large telecommunication corporation. The application allows users to explore resource aggregations over multiple classification schemata in parallel, enabling not only personalized information access, but also improved understanding of content distributions, as well as trend analysis and target tracking. We further present empirical usability results of a first prototype from questionnaires and eye tracking studies.
This paper introduces a visualization technique designed to uncover iconographic patterns prevalent within a collection while at the same time allowing close viewing of these particular details. Challenging an institutionalized understanding of overview and detail as inherently opposed, the intention of this research is to develop a visualization method that accounts for the iconographic abundance of a collection and encourages its casual exploration. Expanding digitization efforts have led to a growing number of rich cultural heritage datasets that are successively being published online. At the same time scholars are exploring the potential of computational methods to expand the scale and scope of art history. In this context, data visualization is often equated with a distanced perspective diminishing the intricate and intriguing details of individual artifacts. In collaboration with a museum of applied and decorative arts, we have devised a novel interface concept for the exploration of image collections such as historical glass plate negatives. Inspired by photographic plates on a light table, the resulting Close-up Cloud translates the art historical method of close viewing into the digital by combining it with a dynamic representation of quantitative iconographic patterns across an entire image collection.
We present findings from design research on disclosure at the intersection of data visualization, digital storytelling, and feminism. While there is an increased awareness of power structures in data science, computing, and design, there is little design research to confront these. This work explores the potential of disclosing context information of data stories, i.e., digital storytelling formats utilizing data visualizations, to enable critical-feminist readings of and reflections on these stories. Drawing from a growing body of feminist scholarship in human-computer interaction, data science, and beyond, we identify key aspects and forms of disclosure for embedding them into visual data story interfaces. We devise and validate these aspects and forms within a case study: a Web-based scrollytelling article explaining the feminist concept of intersectionality using a combination of animated illustration, data visualization, and text. With this work, we demonstrate and discuss the potentials and pitfalls of disclosure practices in data storytelling.
Virtual Reality (VR) applications play an increasingly important role in the context of mental health. While VR-based therapeutic interventions are increasingly well-established, the application of VR in the field of mental health awareness represents a novel and promising development. We present our mental health awareness VR application “hopohopo”, in which the user takes the perspective of a person suffering from social anxiety. Through the VR journey, the user experiences what it could feel like to suffer from constant fear of being negatively judged by others in everyday social situations. The aim of the application is to allow nonaffected users to expand their knowledge and to raise mental health awareness. In this paper, we report our findings on the potential of this immersive VR application for psychoeducation and destigmatization of social anxiety. In this respect, we provide the scope of our VR application and first results of its ongoing usability and usefulness evaluation process.
As data are becoming increasingly central to journalistic practice, a number of technology-driven approaches are emerging among data journalists. This article focuses on sensor journalism, which brings new practical and ethical concerns to journalism. By interviewing and working with data journalists and journalism scholars, we analyze the new technological and ethical challenges that sensors bring to journalism. The results contribute to the knowledge on how data journalists implicitly embed ethical values into their everyday work. Furthermore, they suggest that general ethical values are revisited and extended by the influence of sensors.
Heattile, a new method for heatmap implementations for mobile web-based cartographic applications
(2014)
Mobile handheld computing devices are becoming a more important part of our digital infrastructure. Web-based map services and visualisations for spatial data are being optimised for use on these new mobile devices. Despite the fast development of mobile devices, compared to laptop and desktop computers they remain slower in terms of processing power and have limited memory capacity. Bandwidth in most areas is still limited, regardless of the fast expansion of high-speed internet for mobile devices. To overcome these two limitations an improvement in existing spatial data visualisations is necessary. This chapter compares existing methods and presents a new approach to generating and delivering web-based heat map visualisations for spatial data that is optimised for mobile devices.
Computerbasierte Rezeption
(2022)
Die neuen, genauer: computerbasierten Formen der Filmrezeption nimmt dieser Beitrag zum Anlass, sowohl die damit adressierten als auch die damit distanzierten Rezeptionsbedingungen in den Blick zu nehmen. Die Verbindung von Film und New Media führt dabei einerseits zur historisch bedeutenden Etablierung der DVD und andererseits zu damit verbundenen Fragen und Mythen von (Inter-)Aktivität, Passivität, Flexibilität und Neuheit. Der wortwörtliche Umgang mit Film, der auf der Basis des Computers durch Medien wie DVD und Blu-ray Disc sowie durch Online-Angebote und Second Screen Apps möglich und herausgefordert wird, modifiziert zwei grundsätzliche Aspekte des Verhältnisses von Film und Gesellschaft: die Aktivität des Publikums und die Anti-Originalität des Films.
Wie sieht die Zukunft der Recherche in digitalen Bibliothekskatalogen aus? Wie können umfangreiche und heterogene Sammlungsbestände mit Hilfe von Datenvisualisierungen besser zugänglich gemacht werden? Kann man durch eine digitale Bibliothek flanieren und dabei den Bestand auf ganz neue Art entdecken? Diese Fragen standen im Zentrum eines Forschungsprojekts, das ein interdisziplinäres Team von Forscherinnen und Forschern des Urban Complexity Lab der FHP im vergangenen Jahr in Kooperation mit der DNB durchgeführt hat. Dieser Artikel stellt das Hauptergebnis des Projekts vor: DNBVIS, der Prototyp eines experimentellen Kataloginterfaces. Anschließend werden die Vorgehensweise und wichtigsten Erkenntnisse des Projekts zusammengefasst.
Scholz, da Costa Oliveira und Dörk widmen sich in ihrem Beitrag Erfahrungen mit digitalen Werkzeugen im Kontext ethnologischer Sammlungen sowie den Herausforderungen, die sich bei der Berücksichtigung unterschiedlicher Wissenspraktiken in der Zusammenarbeit mit Heritage Communities stellen. Ausgehend von dem Projekt Sharing Knowledge (2014-2020), das im Ethnologischen Museum (Staatliche Museen zu Berlin/ Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz) stattfand, wird argumentiert, dass die Trägheit von Infrastrukturen und die Erforschung ihrer Funktionsweise - d.h. die Entschlüsselung der Meistererzählungen und Ausschlussmechanismen hinter musealen Wissenspraktiken - entscheidende Schlüssel darstellen zur Entwicklung von Werkzeugen und Taktiken, um eben diese Trägheit zu umgehen und zu untergraben. Während der erste Teil des Papiers dem Beispielprojekt kritische Aufmerksamkeit schenkt, schlägt der zweite Teil neue Methoden vor, um Infrastrukturen zu entwickeln, die Relationalität und Pluralität zulassen.
In this paper, we present a field study that examines the development, application and maintenance of classification systems and controlled vocabularies in three archives documenting lesbian, trans* and queer-feminist histories. Queer archives face the challenge of documenting identities that are inherently characterized by embracing fluidity and ambiguity. Thus, queer identities are diametrically opposed to archival procedures of unambiguous classification. At the same time, queer activism relies partly on coherent identity categories in order to be able to act politically. We examine the pragmatic solutions that queer archives establish when dealing with tensions between those requirements. Our goal is to contribute to the ongoing discussions about the ethical dimensions of classification practices. Following the work of Geoffrey C. Bowker and Susan Leigh Star (1999) we use the concept of boundary objects as a central theoretical foundation of our research. This concept allows for tracing the negotiations and decision-making processes that influenced the creation of a specific classification system. Through conducting semi-structured interviews with staff members of queer archives in Germany we collected data about their efforts to archive the history of queer communities. Although there are initiatives developing metadata standards for queer identities, these standards are only used to a limited extent by the queer archives we examined. Rather, those archives established individual strategies for categorizing objects that are rooted in their specific history. We argue that classification systems and controlled vocabularies themselves can be understood as artifacts documenting the history of queer movements.
Versatile camcorders
(2021)
Small robust action-cams like the GoPro have lastingly altered the conditions for making images by conceiving the body and the device as a single unit acting together, and by staging this joint movement in sometimes spectacular ways. The perspective gained by being closely attached to the body, and the aesthetic qualities that result from this, is a particular feature of this camera. This basic constellation has given rise to a culture of making and sharing images, which is linked in turn to the distribution and communication methods of digital media or brands.
This book is the first to deal with this phenomenon, pursuing it from a variety of perspectives from media and cultural studies.
Dieser Beitrag beschäftigt sich mit den Herausforderungen eine Anforderungsanalyse im hoch technologischen Umfeld der IT-Security durchzuführen, bei dem keine der üblichen ethnografischen Methoden wie teilnehmende Beobachtung u.a. möglich waren. Im Umfeld von IT-Sicherheitsexperten besteht grundsätzlich Skepsis bzgl. möglicher Datenerfassungen, die Sicherheitsbelange des eigenen IT-Sicherheits-Betriebes (ITS) betreffen. Diese muss vor allem in der Anforderungsanalyse beachtet werden. Welche Methode könnte hierbei also zum Einsatz kommen? Im Rahmen des Beitrages möchten wir unser Vorgehen und die gewonnen Erkenntnisse im Rahmen eines ZIM-Koop-Projektes des BMWi vorstellen und anhand eines Frameworks inkl. der Sample-Visualisierung der gewonnenen Daten zur Experience-Sample-Methode erläutern.
„Da haste den Salat“
(2015)
Allein in Deutschland landen jedes Jahr 11 Millionen Tonnen Lebensmittel auf dem Müll, obwohl sie noch zum Verzehr geeignet wären: allein 61% davon aus privaten Haushalten. Gleichzeitig wächst durch die voranschreitende Urbanisierung der Wunsch nach mehr sozialer Vernetzung. Was können wir gegen diese Entwicklung tun? Wie bringt man Menschen dazu, bewusster mit Nahrungsmitteln umzugehen und welche Rolle können soziale Netzwerke dabei spielen? Im Dialog mit Nutzern entstand mittels Personas und Szenarien „neighborSWAP“: Eine App als lokales Einkaufsnetzwerk. Sie ermöglicht kollaboratives Einkaufen und das Teilen übriggebliebener Mahlzeiten, ungenutzter Lebensmittel oder selbst angebauter Waren über eine Sharing-Funktion. Gleichzeitig inspiriert sie den Nutzer zu einer abwechslungsreichen und bewussten Ernährung.
A tendency has developed in recent times toward a close connection of the (photo) apparatus and the body. The GoPro, the “world’s most versatile camera,” as stated in the developer’s self-description, is often worn attached to the body, is held at a moderate distance from the body by means of a selfie stick, or is firmly mounted on helmets and sporting equipment. Regarding these cameras, a whole array of practices and technologies has evolved that strongly promote “self-shooting.” Thus, a new genre of the self-image has arisen: images of skaters, surfers, fliers, fallers, and the fallen, all capturing themselves in all circumstances up until death; it seems that the camera itself creates the risk to fall. This chapter focuses on the relationship of aesthetics, body, and apparatus that can be traced back to early examples of “falling photographers” and that is nowadays so impressively exemplified by the GoPro technique and its usage. Additionally, the text deals with the general leveling of the difference between the moving image (video) and the still image (photography) within the digital realm, specifically via the unification of both, technologies and practices, in one apparatus—like the GoPro.
This article discusses how the formerly motionless and silent photographic image is set in motion and how this shift affects its usages. This turn is viewed under the changing conditions in production and circulation of social media platforms and the technical unity of photo and video camera. Various photographic practices and aspects will be adressed: the accelerated and ubiquitous production of images (capture and processing), which is dialectically related to the aesthetics of the images, their mode of reception (displays), their distribution and storage (platforms) and the (photographic) apparatuses, with which they are produced. The increase in photographic production is accompanied by a shift away from the decisive and composed single image. The unified apparatus of photographic and video technology is bringing both media ever closer together, which in turn supports the tendency toward the mobile and mobilized image. The article shows how communication has become immediate with digital photographs, how mobile, spatial images, people and apparatuses are related to one another as well as how they create and influence powerful realities; this has always been one of the most fundamental issues of photography.
Jan Distelmeyer widmet sich in diesem Beitrag der Frage, was für eine Art von Autonomie beim autonomen Fahren angestrebt und realisiert wird. Am Beispiel der Marke Tesla zeigt er, dass Vorstellungen einer Selbständigkeit und Unabhängigkeit von menschlicher Aktivität in die Irre führen. Stattdessen ist die Beziehung zwischen Mensch und Technik hier durch eine besondere, zunächst verdoppelte und letztlich zirkuläre Form von Kontrolle und Evaluation geprägt: durch eine (Wunsch-)Konstellation spezieller Feedback-Schleifen, die Kontrolle durch menschliche Akteure und Kontrolle durch computerisierte Technik anhaltend verknüpft. Dieses Verhältnis lässt sich als programmatischer Kreislauf von Kontrolle beschreiben. Er wird durch das Ineinandergreifen diverser Ebenen von Interfaces möglich, von denen das zentrale Dashboard-Display des Wagens nur die offensichtlichste und - als Touchscreen - betont brauchbare Interface-Schicht darstellt.
Der Beitrag widmet sich der im Verhältnis von Spiel und Computer so besonderen Rolle von Regeln und der Frage, wie mit ihnen umgegangen werden kann. Das „Casual Game“ ANGRY BIRDS wird hier zum Beispiel und Anlass, grundsätzlich über Games als Funktionen des Computers sowie über Algorithmen und Programmierung nachzudenken.
Das interdisziplinäre Forschungsvorhaben widmet sich postdigitalen Kulturszenen, die an der Schnittstelle von Kunst, Bildung und Technologie innovative Formate ästhetischer Aneignung, Produktion und Vermittlung hervorbringen. Gemeint sind künstlerische Praktiken, die die Computertechnik zum Ausgangspunkt nehmen, um durch sie bedingte und über sie hinausgehende Fragestellungen ästhetisch neu zu verhandeln. Ausgangspunkt ist die postdigitale Beobachtung, dass Algorithmen und Daten die Gesellschaft längst durchziehen, unsere Verhältnisse zur sozialen und materiellen Welt zunehmend über digitale Repräsentationen vermitteln und die Komplexität ihrer technologischen Konstituierung unsichtbar wird (Bolter/Gruisin 1999; Cramer 2015; Berry/Dieter 2015; Contreras-Koterbay/Mirocha 2016). Vor diesem Hintergrund erlauben Kunstpraktiken, die mit digitalen Methoden generiert, aber nicht notwendigerweise digital vermittelt werden, in besonderem Maße Prozesse der Digitalisierung kritisch zu reflektieren und so die Beziehungen zwischen digitalen und physischen Räumen nicht aus dem Blick zu verlieren, sondern aktiv mitzugestalten. Dennoch finden sie in der Kulturellen Bildung (KuBi), deren Zielgruppen kaum Bewusstsein für das künstlerische und kritische Potenzial digitaler Formate haben, bislang wenig Berücksichtigung. Es scheint, als ob postdigitaler Kunst über die Altersgruppen hinweg ein hohes Maß an Affirmation von Digitalisierungsprozessen zugesprochen wird. Im Kontrast hierzu veranschaulichen prominente Vertreterinnen und Vertreter, wie digitale Methoden produktiv eingesetzt werden, um kritische Fragen zur Digitalisierung zu artikulieren (Bridle 2013). Hervorzuheben ist die Reflexionsfähigkeit medienimmanenter Ausdrucksformen postdigitaler Kunst, die eine rezeptive und kreative Auseinandersetzung mit ihrer soziotechnischen Spezifik ermöglicht, wenngleich sie im Kunstverständnis der jüngeren Generation kaum eine Rolle spielen (Meyer 2010, Seitz 2013a; Rat für Kulturelle Bildung 2015a). Es fehlt die notwendige Grundlagenforschung, um eine angemessene Anwendung postdigitalen Kunstschaffens für verschiedene Zielgruppen der KuBi zu ermöglichen. In dem folgenden Beitrag umreißen wir kurz den Status Quo der KuBi, reflektieren wesentliche Entwicklungslinien postdigitaler Kunst und formulieren Ansprüche für transdisziplinäre Forschung an deren Schnittmenge.
Ausgehend vom Begriff der Interaktivität erörtert der Beitrag, was ein Computerspiel ist und ermöglicht. Daraus entstehen neue Möglichkeiten und Ansatzpunkte, Games zum Komplex der Medienbildung zu machen und sie spielend zu reflektieren. Um die (Inter-)Aktivitäten in, mit und von Computerspielen zu diskutieren, werden Games in Bezug zur Ästhetik und Logik der Verfügung gesetzt, welche die Gegenwart des Computers in seinen diversen Formen auszeichnet.
Vor dem Hintergrund der laufenden Computerisierung – der Verbreitung, Diversifizierung, Vernetzung und zunehmenden Unsichtbarkeit von Computertechnologie – zeichnen sich Computerspiele durch eine herausfordernde Offensivität aus. Games konfrontieren, um einzubeziehen. Während im Hinblick auf „Ubiquitous Computing“ diskutiert wird, wie die ehedem deutlich erkennbare Technologie zunehmend unmerklich in unsere Lebenswelt integriert wird, streben Computerspiele eine geradezu gegensätzliche Bewegung an. Sie müssen sich und ihre Spielmöglichkeiten zeigen, damit jene Form von Spielen omnipräsent werden kann. So geben sie zugleich Anlass und Mittel, sich mit der wirkenden Präsenz von Computern auseinanderzusetzen. In diesem Sinne nimmt der Aufsatz die populäre „Casual Game“-Reihe „Angry Birds“ zum Anlass, um über Games als Funktionen des Computers, über Algorithmen und über Programmierbarkeit nachzudenken.
We see more cartographic products in our digital world than ever before. But what role does cartography play in the modern production of cartographic products? In this position paper, we will argue that the democratization and diffusion of cartographic production has also led to the presumed “fading relevance” of cartography. As an argument against this notion, we highlight starting points for the field of cartography to improve modern cartographic production through its inherent cartographic knowledge.
In this paper we present a general definition of the concept ’intuitive use of user interfaces’ on the basis of our current interdisciplinary work. ’Intuitive use’ is regarded as a characteristic of human-machine systems. It refers to a special kind of interaction process between users and technical systems that use the users’ intuition. The main part of the paper deals with central aspects of this definition in detail and discusses pre-conditions and restrictions of the use of the concept. The main aspects that we discuss are the design of technical systems, application and non-conscious use of previous knowledge, intuition as a non-conscious process, interaction, and effectiveness. We complement this discussion by addressing the relationship between aesthetics and intuitive use.
SocialButton
(2007)
We are exploring the use of small displays as an instrument to enhance social communication. Our focus is on encouraging communication between strangers by revealing the existence of common friends. In the following we present the concept of the SocialButton, a wearable mobile device which displays aspects of friend-of-a-friend networks. A group study has provided us with an initial understanding regarding the potential of the SocialButton to influence our social environment.
In this paper, we investigate possibilities and limitations of temperature change as a method for information display in mobile applications. While some widespread and well-recognized haptic displays such as force-feedback often trigger the user's immediate attention, we will focus on ambient strategies for tactile information display, that is, the display of gradual state changes in the user's periphery that do not unexpectedly interrupt her current tasks, but builds on the mind's ability for subliminal perception of environmental change instead [1, 2].
To this end, we present a series of prototypes of mobile devices that display ambient information by means of thermal change based on the thermo-electric effect [3]. In order to assess the expedience and feasibility of such a display, a series of user tests have been conducted with respect to both, the ability for thermal change recognition and a concrete application scenario for such a display.
Articulated paint
(2007)
In this paper we present the concept and prototype of a new musical interface that utilizes the close relationship between gestural expression in the act of painting and that of playing a musical instrument in order to provide non-musicians the opportunity to create musical expression. A physical brush on a canvas acts as the instrument. The characteristics of its stroke are intuitively mapped to a conductor program, defining expressive parameters of the tone in real-time. Two different interaction modes highlight the importance of bodily expression in making music as well as the value of a metaphorical visual representation.
Today numerous telecommunication services are implemented and brought to users. Common for these services is that their interfaces differ tremendously. As a consequence users have to learn the usage of each interface. Amorelation provides the new approach of meshed interaction design patterns (MIDP) that enable service usage in a consistent way for arbitrary telecommunication services. These patterns enable the design of complex interfaces for a variety of interfaces in a convenient and similar manner. With other words, through MIDP receives the user an unified user experience for a variety of applications. A novelty of this approach is the linkage between the modeling of patterns and interface design, which is achieved by a hierarchical structuring of the patterns. The MIDP approach is applied to a Mobile Messaging Service. This application is evaluated with and without MIDP by well-known usability measures like efficiency and ease-to-use.
United-pulse
(2008)
This paper introduces a device that creates remote intimacy by the use of two rings named "united-pulse". Each ring can measure the wearer's heartbeat and send it to the partner's ring. Hereby, artificial corporeality is created between the couple. By means of a working prototype, united-pulse has been successfully tested. Among the 28 participants the prototype has attracted large interest. Through the heartbeat - the essential vital sign - a feeling of being very close to the partner is provided. Touching the ring allows a small moment of intimacy in situations where emotional support is needed.
In this paper we present a device to support the communication of couples in long-distance relationships. While a synchronous exchange of factual information over distance is supported by telephone, e-mail and chat-systems, the transmission of nonverbal aspects of communication is still unsatisfactory. Videocalls let us see the partners' facial expression in real time. However, to experience a more intimate conversation physical closeness is needed. Stroking while holding hands is a special and emotional gesture for couples. Hence, we developed a device that enables couples to exchange the physical gesture of stroking regardless of distance and location. The device allows both sending and receiving. A user test supported our concept and provided new insights for future development.
{hi}stories
(2008)
With more and more digital information being produced by individuals every day, we will soon be able to use it to understand the past. Based on this premise this paper presents {Hi}Stories, a system to support the creation and access of user generated contents as historical evidences. In {Hi}Stories users aggregate contents from Internet and are invited to contribute their own material. It combines a number of research themes: collaborative information structuring, combination of contents from online services, and visualization and browsing of structured information collections.
Dynamic knobs
(2008)
In this paper, we introduce the change of a mobile phone's hardware shape as a means of tactile interaction.
The alteration of shape is implemented in a hardware prototype using a dynamic knob as an interaction device for the user. The knob alters the phone's shape according to different events and states, like incoming calls, new voice mail, or missed calls. Therefore, the user can explore the phone's status by touching it - ambiently, even through the pocket. Initial user testing showed that this form of tactile interaction was easy to understand and handy to interact with, also for unexperienced users.
Spoken Words
(2008)
Writing is a predominantly visual task. In the following, we describe a system that adds a new modality to computer-supported text editing: Listening with closed eyes.
We present a prototype, for which we combined a text-to-speech software, Microsoft Word and a face tracking system. It reads out the current sentence in Microsoft Word as soon as the user closes both eyes.
In this paper we discuss further details of the concept and its background, describe the implementation of the prototype and disclose first user testing results, before we conclude our findings with an outlook on future research.