First Presentation

This presentation was given on June 9th to Anne Burdick.

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Tagging applications

Mac applications for tagging.

• Tag Folders: http://web.me.com/jonstovell/Tag_Folders/Tag_Folders_Home.html
• Punakea: http://www.nudgenudge.eu/punakea
• TagBot: http://bigrobotsoftware.com/
• Tags: http://gravityapps.com/tags/overview/
• Leap: http://www.ironicsoftware.com/leap/

Info about tagging

• CommonTag – a new standard for tagging that includes metadata and semantic organization for tags

Excerpt from Productive Interaction Paper

Excerpt from Phil’s Productive Interaction paper. Original Paper: productive_interaction.pdf

Principles and techniques

Productive interaction requires a different approach to design, and a different view of the audience. To help frame these differences, we can look at the development of productive interaction systems through four major vectors:

• Content: Information, narrative elements, meanings and sensations as communicated in text, image, video, sound, tactile and other modes.
• Context: The integrated presentation of content in form, decoration, attitude, organization, selection, values, and experiences.
• Affordance: The handles that enable the audience to work with and manipulate the content and context.
• Audience: The users as integral elements of the total system, who operate it through the affordances, and who create the final expressions.

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A taxonomy for and analysis of tangible interfaces

By Kenneth P. Fishkin
Personal and Ubiquitous Computing (2004) 8: 347–358 

Abstract 

There have been many research efforts devoted to tangible user interfaces (TUIs), but it has proven difficult to create a definition or taxonomy that allows us to compare and contrast disparate research efforts, integrate TUIs with conventional interfaces, or suggest design principles for future efforts. To address this problem, we present a taxonomy, which uses metaphor and embodiment as its two axes. This 2D space treats tangibility as a spectrum rather than a binary quantity. The further from the origin, the more ‘‘tangible’’ a system is. We show that this spectrum-based taxonomy offers multiple advantages. It unifies previous categorizations and definitions, integrates the notion of ‘‘calm computing,’’ reveals a previously un-noticed trend in the field, and suggests design principles appropriate for different areas of the spectrum.

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Bill Gaver’s Technology Affordances

By Bill Gaver
Proceedings of CHI’91, (New Orleans, Lousiana, April 28 – May 2, 1991), ACM, New York, pp. 79-84.

First proposal for affordance list

Here is a first rough attempt at a list of affordances. These don’t always get to the afforded activity – needs fleshing out and re-working. This is kind of brain-dump and so the list is not consistent in tone or approach.

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Phil’s first refactoring of brainstorming

Overview

We covered a lot of ground in the first couple days, and I think it sets the stage well for our research. It seems to me that we’re covering three main areas.

1. defining how designers work and what parts of that we’re interested in.
2. defining our approach to building a taxonomy
3. identifying potential directions for our prototypes

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2nd day of brainstorming

Whiteboard images from day 2 of brainstorming

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White board captures from first day

White board captures from May 13th.

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