Seven Master of Arts students from Constance at the University of Applied Sciences Communication Design faculty will be working on design research concerning multi-touch interfaces summer term 2008. Kicking off the project ... 1. Inspiration and History: http://www.slideshare.net/haraldf/touch-research-1-inspiration 2. HCI Details: http://www.slideshare.net/haraldf/touch-research-2-hci-details 3. A Research Paper: http://www.slideshare.net/haraldf/touch-research-3

1. ⁄ A Project
⁄ Communication
Design M1
⁄ HTWG Constance
Touch Research

2. Introduction

3. ⁄ Digital Marketing IT Consultant
⁄ A spectrum of projects, from international marketing to IT.
⁄ http://about.felgner.ch

5. ⁄ Dani Costa Filipe
⁄ Felix Seyfarth
⁄ Fan Zhang
⁄ Florian Roebig
⁄ Joel Lück
⁄ Laura Pabst
⁄ Liesa Maier
⁄ Stefan Herzet

6. ⁄ On Wednesdays
⁄ 8:45 AM - 11:15 AM
⁄ M003

7. ⁄ Organization & Private Presentations/ Results:
http://ww.serverkd.de
⁄ Public Results: http://tinyurl.com/4ufc7c and
http://www.slideshare.net/haraldf

8. P1: Inspiration

9. Goal

10. ⁄ Next Milestone (#1)
⁄ Understand the history of human computer interfaces
⁄ Form groups of 1 or 2
⁄ Choose a topic
⁄ Prepare a 15-minute presentation

11. History

12. 1. How did humans interact with computers between 1940
and 1970? Were there computers anyway?
⁄ Dani & Florian
2. How could one interact via a command line interface?
Disadvantages? Advantages?
⁄ Fan

13. 3. Who invented the mouse? How did ancient mice look like?
⁄ Laura & Felix
5. Are there alternatives to the mouse?
⁄ Joel

14. 5. Present the iPhone. What is special concerning HCI?
⁄ Liesa
7. Present Bill Buxton’s overview of multi-touch.
⁄ Stefan

15. nspirational Links

16. ⁄ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konrad_Zuse
⁄ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ENIAC
⁄ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Command_line_interface
⁄ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Engelbart
⁄ http://discuss.fogcreek.com/joelonsoftware/default.asp?
cmd=show&ixPost=56366

17. ⁄ http://www.apple.com/iphone/ads/ad5/
⁄ http://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/iphone-video.adp
⁄ http://www.billbuxton.com/multitouchOverview.html
⁄ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcKqyn-gUbY
⁄ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Id43juZ3_o0
⁄ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4Kl3_aU1bY
⁄ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttQOQDu-IQs

18. Presentations

19. 1. How did humans interact with computers between 1940
and 1970? Were there computers anyway?
⁄ Dani & Florian
⁄ Results: Binary; Transistors & ICs; there was always a keyboard!;
we had no GUI before 1970
2. How could one interact via a command line interface?
Disadvantages? Advantages?
⁄ Fan
⁄ Results: You need to control technology!; a CLI can be faster/ more
efficient; you need to speak the language

20. 3. Who invented the mouse? How did ancient mice look like?
⁄ Laura & Felix
⁄ Results: Technology is always invented for military purposes; there
was no need for the (existing) mouse for quite some time; it was
developed for zero gravity
5. Are there alternatives to the mouse?
⁄ Joel
⁄ Results: The trackball has the highest market share among the rest of
pointing devices; speech control works only in silence; brain mouse
might be the future!

21. 5. Present the iPhone. What is special concerning HCI?
⁄ Liesa
⁄ Results: Sometimes, using fingers is less efficient; 2 fingers is the
innovation; there is only one hardware interface element left
7. Present Bill Buxton’s overview of multi-touch.
⁄ Stefan

22. Credits

23. /libraryman/718450522/ /library_of_congress/2516566660/
www.flickr.com/creativecommons
/photocapy/250355140/
/phitar/7201140/
/residae/2560241604/
/joesflickr/711358450/
/bitzcelt/1450900070/
/dmealiffe/171720479/
/keylosa/184606430/
/liewcf/894035077/

24. ⁄ University of Applied Sciences Constance, Faculty for
Communication Design, Project “Touch Research”:
⁄ http://www.htwg-konstanz.de
⁄ http://www.kd.fh-konstanz.de/dina8/daten_e.php?wodenn=will
⁄ http://www.felgner.ch/2008/04/touch_research.html