Entertainment Computing
Matthias Rauterberg maintains an overview over established academic journals on Entertainment Computing (PDF)
Human Computer Interaction
Design
Christoph Bartneck’s DesignandScience.org
Entertainment Computing
Matthias Rauterberg maintains an overview over established academic journals on Entertainment Computing (PDF)
[singlepic id=11 float=left](Original article from IDZine )
The Industrial Design department has started a series of colloquia, aimed at ID staff and ID Master students. The idea is to exchange information about research efforts and inspire one another through quests and discussion. It is a tight formula. In only sixty minutes three presentations are given. One of the presenters was dr. Jun Hu, assistant professor with the Designed Intelligence capacity group.
by Abdullah Al Mahmud and Yeo Lee Chin. Final USI Project. Report: [PDF, 1M]
Perceived privacy i.e., how users perceive that their privacy is handled by the system, is one of the key issues for the user acceptance of current ambient intelligent environment applications. This project was carried out in the context of the Amigo project, a large IST funded project in which 15 European organizations work together on the development of interoperable software architectures and applications for intelligent ambient home environments. Within the Amigo project, one of the tasks is dedicated to gain insights into how perceived privacy should be handled in an ambient intelligent networked home environment. Our project consisted of designing and building a functional prototype in which the system adapted to changes in the context of the user and the user’s environment while accounting for the users control over their privacy.
Continue reading Perceived Privacy Handling in an Amigo Extended Home Environment Application
I was really satisfied with what the master students have achieved last week. They have done
more than I expected during that “pattern recognition” week – in their hands the
LEGO can even do OCR and Speech Recognition. They consolidated their knowledge of
machine learning and neural networks that were learnt from previous weeks, and used these techniques for pattern recognition.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1P9uMcTBJUU[/youtube]
Jun Hu, Philip Ross, Loe Feijs and Yuechen Qian
Abstract. When designing product behavior, the designer often needs to communicate to experts in computer software and protocols. In present-day software engineering, formal specification methods such as the Universal Modeling Language have been widely accepted. Teaching design students these formal methods is non-trivial because most of design students often have difficulties in programming the behaviors of complex produces and systems. Instead of programming, this paper presents a technique, namely “acting-out”, for design students to master the formal methods. The experience shows that acting-out not only worked out very well as a teaching technique, but also showed the potential for bridging the processes of industrial design and software engineering.
Bram Hendriks, Jun Hu
Abstract. This paper presents a redesign of a CD player, a combination of creative and analytical processes. After an analysis with users of the product and its functionalities, the interaction relabelling technique was used to explore richness of actions, while the Frogger framework was used to design for intuitiveness. The resulting ideas were translated into interactive prototypes, involving functional hard- and software. Evaluated with users during a usability test and integrated into a singular design.
Keywords: rich interaction, intuitiveness, design process
[singlepic id=7 w= h= float=left]From the narrative of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, we chose six stages, each represents a chapter or part of it. From start to end the user undergoes immersion that consists of real and nature mimicking, virtual and augmented reality in such situations which demands the user to question him/her self and their logic and Western reasoning.
This project is conducted at the Designed Intelligence Group of the Department of Industrial Design at the Eindhoven University of Technology, in collaboration with Microsoft Research in Cambridge (UK). See more on http://www.alice.id.tue.nl.
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product with sensors, actuators and network connections can offer an
interesting, useful, or playful behavior to its users and to the other
products, systems and services to which it is connected. The ID Master
takes responsibility for the creation of this behavior. If the product
isn’t stand-alone, neither is the designer. Whenever product behavior
is realized through computer software and protocols, the designer takes
advantage of being an excellent communicator in these matters.
Dirk van de Mortel, Jun Hu
ABSTRACT
ApartGame is a tabletop platform that supports multiple games for social environments and intensive public use. This paper summarizes the design of ApartGame and the results from preliminary user evaluation. The integration of physical control and digital objects was a crucial design decision and it made the games on the platform tangible.
Door Martijn Hover, pg. 26, Woensdag 13 September 2006
De ‘ambient’-apparatuur waarmee Philips momenteel de huiskamers
hoopt te veroveren is nog maar het begin, verzekert
assistant-hoogleraar Jun Hu van de techische universiteit Eindhoven.
“Uiteindlijk willen we de hele woonkamer, zelfs het hele huis,
integreren tot een interactieve omgeving.”
[2006-09-13-eindhovensdagblad]
Continue reading Eindhovens Dagblad: Oosterling vreest bezielde machine niet