21 Nov 2007
Working in groups, we begin to translate our design ideas into scenarios describing interactive exhibits.
Readings for Discussion
Hartley, Matt. “![[WWW]](http://wikispot.org/wiki/eggheadbeta/img/sycamore-www.png){kind=small}
Open Source Hardware: Birth of a Long Tail Market?” Datamation (19 Sep 2007).
Naone, Erica. “Open Source Hardware: A Reconfigurable Handheld Device Could Foster a Community of Hardware Hackers,” Technology Review (16 Oct 2007).
Saffer, Dan. “Ch. 4: Design Research and Brainstorming” and “Ch. 5: Models and Diagrams,” in Designing for Interaction: Creating Smart Applications and Clever Devices. Peachpit Press, 2006.
In-class Group Exercise
Working in groups, choose one of the cells in the table below and put together a short narrative (3-4 sentences) describing some kind of history-based interaction.
{Handheld, Tabletop, Indoors, Outdoors} x {1 person, 2 people, Group}
Now try to fill in as many of the other cells as you can.
Demonstration
Introduction to physical computing
-
transducers
-
digital vs. analog signals
-
inputs and outputs
-
processing
-
circuits
-
microcontrollers
-
computers
-
communications
Further Reading
Dan O’Sullivan and Tom Igoe. “Introduction,” in Physical Computing: Sensing and Controlling the Physical World with Computers. Thomson Course Technology, 2004.
Individual Exercise
Easy. Evaluate some existing websites. Visit the following websites and analyse the ways that history is presented on each. Which techniques do you find to be particularly effective, and why?
