As we move toward the design of richer interfaces for HMDs, I have decided to create a strong development pipeline for 3D modeling, animation, and IxD programming. We decided to use the zSpace display as a prototyping platform, together with Unity3D as the programming environment. The following video shows our implementation of the Unity Survival…
Transparent-display mobile devices have long been the focus on concept designs and visions of the future of interactive technologies. Taking the lead in commercializing such devices, some manufactures have release very basic phones such as the Lenove S800, without much success. Transparent mobiles present new challenges like where to locate the batteries or the perception…
This is certainly one of the most beautiful data visualizations I ever encountered. It combines a lot of things I like like flying, traveling, and geography. Most importantly, it shows patterns in air travel (like the sky highways) that we know exist, but we never really see.
If you are working on mid-air interactions or hand gestures for interacting remotely with a computer, or for creating the next augmented reality (AR) gadget, then you will certainly encounter that your novel hand-wavvy mid-air ironman-like interface is REALLY tiresome. And that’s no small problem. Known as the gorilla arm effect, this phenomenon was one…
My previous post shows examples of color correction for two images (IronMan and a Rhino) over different backgrounds. I have been asked whether color correction can run in real-time and thus we’ve created a video showcasing just that: real-time color correction. As you can see we can turn it on and off, and achieve acceptable…
In this video Aurelien Tabard presents our work on TIDE at the FITG 2012 seminar in Paris. This is a nice take on the project! Resources Sicard, L., Tabard, A., Hincapié-Ramos, J.D. and Bardram, J.E. 2013. TIDE: Lightweight Device Composition for Enhancing Tabletop Environments with Smartphone Applications. In Human-Computer Interaction–INTERACT 2013. Springer Berlin Heidelberg. [pdf…
In this post I am planning to collect information about how to do a literary review for HCI projects. The idea for this review is not that of a systematic literature review paper. But a more relaxed version of it that can used to report in a related-work section of an HCI/Ubicomp/UIST paper, and yet…
I think this video explains it well enough! Resources Hincapié-Ramos, J.D., Esbensen, M. and Kogutowska, M. 2011. Rapid Prototyping of Tangibles with a Capacitive Mouse. In Proc. DHRS ’11. Copenhagen Business School. [pdf (6.6MB)]
This year I attended the UIST conference where I presented our first paper on InterruptMe. It was a very intensive conference I had loads of fun, and met with many interesting people. As I knew I was going to attend anyway I decided to join the student competition, and formed a group together with my…
From an HCI perspective [1], a design space is a tool that signals the different possibilities for designing a certain type of artefacts, supporting and augmenting the design practice. Designers create a design space as a reflection on the properties of, and the design choices made for, existing artifacts used for a similar purpose. A…
With a 63% market share in the Internet search [1], Google’s users open their browser and surf to the search portal everyday. If they are Gmail users, they will keep that browser window/tab open for a considerable amount of time. The guys at Google+ are taking advantage of this for showing their Google+ widget in…
NOTE: This information also applies to the ID-3LA reader. Sparkfun sells a lot of amazing electronic parts very appropriate for prototyping, I use it a lot! One of the things I have been using lately is the ID innovations series of RFID readers (ID-12 and ID-2). They are super easy to use and to integrate with…
In this post I would like to discuss the circles in Google+ based on our recent experience designing InterruptMe. First of all, I got very happy when I saw that Google+ has the circles because it validates the approach we proposed for InterruptMe, which is that people has assymetric relationships, and assymetric not only because…
The last week I received the notification of acceptance for the two papers we worked on so hard in the spring. The first one was submitted to Ubicomp and it’s about the Rabbit a fantastic project where I have been doing hardware, software, interaction techniques, UI design, etc. In this paper I collaborated with Aurelien…
One day before starting my enrollment as a PhD student I was called for a project meeting at Aarhus where I learnt what my project was going to be about: “Design a good user interface for using the new grid technology and displaying the large amount of data in a simple manner. In addition, the…
The PhoneVortex is a little project that came to me during a coffee break and I couldn’t help but implement it. The basic idea is that by using a tabletop you can have a much bigger UI for your phone.
A phenomenological perspective on interaction (like Heidegger’s or Merleau-Ponty’s) describes it as a loop, where the interaction is followed by feedback, and this one triggers refletion that supports the understanding of the interaction and thereby of the system. This new understanding iteratively shapes the following interactions with the system, leading to the formation of mental models about the systems’…
Ubiquitous computing technologies, according to Weiser’s vision, fade in the background of user’s attention. This has been discussed as invisibility, and the discussion continues on whether this invisibility is physical, as when sensors are hidden or embedded in everyday products, or psychological, as when the engagement of the user with the technology is such that…
TagCloud from my thesis proposal Latex source!
This year at CHI 2010, there was a very interesting paper+panel about infrastructures in HCI research called “The Infrastructure Problem in HCI“. The paper identifies different types of user experience difficulties caused by underlying infrastructures. The central conclusion of the paper was a call for the HCI community to become more involve in creating technical…
Juan David Hincapié-Ramos 