Thesis proposal for Skye Sant's digital design thesis: the design issue, avenues of exploration, relevance and possible outcomes. For UCD Spring 2012. The movie shown on the third slide can be seen at http://youtu.be/T0eCJqEVKNQ. No rights owned or intended for Minority report or Iron Man. (personal pictures are creative commons to Skye Sant)

1. Skye
Sant:
Thesis
Proposal
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up-­‐to-­‐date
informaGon
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University
of
Colorado
Denver
Spring
Semester,
February
7
2012

2. In
the
beginning…
was
media
"When
I
designed
the
UI
(User
Interface)
for
the
Palm
OS
back
in
'93,
my
first
sketches
were
influenced
by
the
UI
of
the
Enterprise
bridge
panels.”
-­‐
Rob
Haitani
Palm-­‐One,
Inc.
Product
Design
Architect

4. This
is
media
driving
desire
for
a
certain
future.

5. This
is
media
driving
desire
for
a
certain
future.
Made
over
$550
million
worldwide
Made
over
$350
million

6. What
about
the
user?

8. Are
gesture-­‐based
interfaces
the
future?
Is
this
be>er?
For
whom?
In
what
situaGon?
Should
we
start
making
our
devices
recognize
full-­‐arm
gestures?

9. User
Experience
design
Usability
engineering
User
research
User
interface
design
InteracGon
design

11. The
Future
of
Full-­‐Arm
Gesture
UIs
Researching
the
history
of
interface
design
and
looking
at
how
people
currently
use
the
wiimote,
a
full-­‐
arm
gesture
interface,
what
can
be
concluded
about
the
future
of
full-­‐arm
gesture
interfaces?

12. The
Future
of
Full-­‐Arm
Gesture
UIs
Researching
the
history
of
interface
design
and
looking
at
how
people
currently
use
the
wiimote,
a
full-­‐
arm
gesture
interface,
what
can
be
concluded
about
the
future
of
full-­‐arm
gesture
interfaces?

13. Research
Researching
the
history
of
interface
design

14. Researching
the
near
past
of
user
interfaces,
I
can
make
general
conclusions
as
to
why
some
UI
fail
and
why
some
are
adopted.
Researching
the
history
of
interface
design

15. Ethnographic
Study
Looking
at
how
people
currently
use
the
wiimote

16. Using
contextual
enquiry,
I
can
see
and
discuss
with
people
how
they
actually
use
the
wiimote,
a
full-­‐arm
gesture
interface.
Looking
at
how
people
currently
use
the
wiimote

17. Researching
the
near
past
of
user
interfaces,
I
can
make
general
conclusions
as
to
why
some
UI
fail
and
why
some
are
adopted.
Using
contextual
enquiry,
I
can
see
and
discuss
with
people
how
they
actually
use
the
wiimote,
a
full-­‐arm
gesture
interface.
Using
this
research
I
can
make
general
conclusions
regarding
future
adopGon
and
usage
of
full-­‐arm
gesture
UIs.

18. Outcomes
Future
forecasGng

19. Research
Outcome:
§ Ethnographic
research
proposal
&
study
§ Write
up
&
publish
arGcle
§ Permanent
webpage
to
house
the
research,
conclusions
&
any
discussions
or
community.
Future
forecasGng

20. Gallery:
§ Present
research
findings
§ Show
what
does
work
and
what
doesn’t
work
and
why
Future
forecasGng

21. QuesGons?
To
conGnue
this
conversaGon,
please
visit
me
at:
WWW.SKYESANT.COM
Twi>er/skye_sant
University
of
Colorado
Denver
Spring
Semester,
February
7
2012