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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)
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Skye Sant: Thesis Proposal
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University of Colorado Denver Spring Semester, February 7 2012
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
This is media driving desire for a certain future.
Made over $550 million worldwide
Made over $350 million
This is media driving desire for a certain future.
What about the user?
Is this be>er? For whom? In what situaGon? Should we start making our devices recognize full-‐arm gestures?
Are gesture-‐based interfaces the future?
User Experience design
User research
InteracGon design
Usability engineering
User interface design
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?
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?
Researching the history of interface design
Research
Researching the history of interface design
Researching the near past of user interfaces, I can make general conclusions as to why some UI fail and why some are adopted.
Ethnographic Study
Looking at how people currently use the wiimote
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
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.
Outcomes
Future forecasGng
Research Outcome:
Future forecasGng
§ Ethnographic research proposal & study
§ Write up & publish arGcle
§ Permanent webpage to house the research, conclusions & any discussions or community.
Gallery:
Future forecasGng
§ Present research findings § Show what does work and
what doesn’t work and why
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University of Colorado Denver Spring Semester, February 7 2012
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