Touch Research

A project for Communication Design M1

HTWG Constance
Summer Term 2008

Part 0: Introduction, Topics, and Student Presentations (Class 1

and 2)
Introduction
Me, Myself, and I
You!
Participants

Dani Costa Filipe

Felix Seyfarth
Fan Zhang
Florian Roebig
Joel Lck
Laura Pabst
Liesa Maier
Stefan Herzet
Time and Place

On Wednesdays
8:45 AM 11:15 AM
M003
Spaces

Organization & Private Presentations/ Results: http://

ww.serverkd.de

Public Results: http://tinyurl.com/4ufc7c and http://

www.slideshare.net/haraldf
Phase 1: Inspiration
Goal for the Next Session
Touch Tisch -> Touch History
A little bit of history
1. Pre-history: How did humans interact with computers between
1940 and 1970? Were there computers anyway?

2. CLI: How could one interact via a command line interface?

Disadvantages? Advantages?
3. Mouse: Who invented the mouse? How did ancient mice look like?

4. Alternatives: Are there alternatives to the mouse?

5. iPhone: Present the iPhone. What is special concerning HCI?

6. Bill Buxton: Present Bill Buxtons overview of multi-touch.

Links
Konrad Zuse http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konrad_Zuse

ENIAC http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ENIAC

CLI http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Command_line_interface

Douglas Engelbart http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Engelbart

Finger gestures, mouse alternatives discussion on Fog Creek

Software http://discuss.fogcreek.com/joelonsoftware/default.asp?
cmd=show&ixPost=56366
iPhone ad http://www.apple.com/iphone/ads/ad5/

Edward Tuftes iPhone video http://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/

iphone-video.adp

Bill Buxton on multi-touch http://www.billbuxton.com/

multitouchOverview.html

Four multi-touch videos

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
Student Presentations
1. Pre-history: How did humans interact with computers between
1940 and 1970? Were there computers anyway?

2. CLI: How could one interact via a command line interface?

Disadvantages? Advantages?
3. Mouse: Who invented the mouse? How did ancient mice look like?

4. Alternatives: Are there alternatives to the mouse?

5. iPhone: Present the iPhone. What is special concerning HCI?

6. Bill Buxton: Present Bill Buxtons overview of multi-touch.

Credits
Via Creative Commons on flickr:

Libraryman www.flickr.com/libraryman/718450202/
Photocapy www.flickr.com/photocapy/250355140/
Philippe Tarbouriech www.flickr.com/phitar/7201140/
Dezz www.flickr.com/residae/2560241604/
Joe www.flickr.com/joesflickr/711358450/
Mike Bitzenhofer www.flickr.com/bitzcelt/1450900070/
Derrick Mealiffe www.flickr.com/dmealiffe/171720479/
Maurizio D'Arrigo www.flickr.com/keylosa/184606430/
Cheon Fong Liew www.flickr.com/liewcf/894035077/
Library of Congress www.flickr.com/library_of_congress/
2516566660/
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