.NET Gadgeteer: A Platform for Custom Devices

Villar, Nicolas; Scott, James R.; Hodges, Steve; Hammil, Kerry; Miller, C. J.

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-31205-2_14

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“…The meSch platform supports the currently most established DIY hardware systems: Arduino, Gadgeteer (Villar et al 2012), and RasberryPi as these systems have been especially designed to allow non-technical skilled people to build interactive prototypes. Moreover, these systems are comparably cheap and much support of the DIY community in using these systems is given.…”

Section: Mesch Platform -A Tool For Building Interactive Exhibitionsmentioning

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meSch – Tools for Interactive Exhibitions

Wolf

Abdelhady

Abdelrahman

et al. 2015

Electronic Workshops in Computing

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Digital media offers great possibilities to present cultural heritage: visitors can interactively explore content and the content can be dynamically presented according to the situation in the exhibition. For instance, little content may be presented in larger letters if the visitor is standing far away from the exhibit, but if the visitor is coming closer, a larger body of content can be presented using smaller font sizes. One major goal of the meSch project is the development and integration of interactive technology into museum installations that senses visitors' actions in an exhibition and presents digital content according to the visitors' actions, such as position, visit trajectory, language preference, age or interest. We aim not only to empower curators and cultural heritage professionals but also interaction designers to design digital museum experiences and to build interactive exhibitions. Thus, we present here the meSch platform that enables to easily setup interactions in exhibitions. We present the general meSch concept, highlight the Plinth, a prototype that allows measuring the distance of visitors to an exhibit, and describe how the Plinth can enrich exhibitions as interactive component. Finally, we elaborate the iterative design process of the Plinth including an evaluation in an interactive exhibition as well as a re-design based on the results of this evaluation. Interactive exhibition. Proxemics interaction. Architectural guidance.

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Section: Mesch Platform -A Tool For Building Interactive Exhibitionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

meSch – Tools for Interactive Exhibitions

Wolf

Abdelhady

Abdelrahman

et al. 2015

Electronic Workshops in Computing

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“…HCI research has contributed systems for rapid prototyping of Ubicomp devices and systems [8,9,4,18]. While some focus exclusively on self-contained interactions, others such as .NET Gadgeteer [18] and Shared Phidgets [15] explicitly offer network connectivity to create Internet-connected devices.…”

Section: Ubicomp Prototypingmentioning

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“…While some focus exclusively on self-contained interactions, others such as .NET Gadgeteer [18] and Shared Phidgets [15] explicitly offer network connectivity to create Internet-connected devices. However, these devices tend to be tethered and not optimized for power consumption, so they cannot easily be deployed in mobile scenarios outside the lab.…”

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“…Thus, experimentation in deployable, mobile wearable devices is largely reserved to experts, and implementation cycles are long and complex, which prohibits rapid prototyping. While research has introduced prototyping toolkits that significantly increase the speed of design explorations [9,8,18], these toolkits often make power or connectivity tradeoffs that restrict their use to lab settings or stationary, plug-in products.…”

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Fabryq: Using Phones as Smart Proxies to Control Wearable Devices from the Web

Etemadi¹,

McGrath²,

Roy³

et al. 2014

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Wearable ubiquitous computing devices are often size-and power-constrained, which prevents them from directly connecting to the Internet. A common pattern is therefore to interpose a smart phone as a router and to deliver graphical user interfaces for such hardware. However, implementing the entire pipeline from embedded device through a phone to the Internet and back requires a disjoint set of languages and APIs accessible only to experts. In this paper, we present fabryq, a new platform that handles the complexities of creating such applications. fabryq is especially aimed at supporting field deployments of prototype ubicomp hardware, e.g., for new interactive health devices. fabryq turns a smartphone into a bridge that connects the short range wireless technology of Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) with our cloud service via the Internet. We introduce a protocol proxy programming model to find and control peripheral devices from Javascript; and describe a UI pushdown technique to render user interfaces on phones within reach of peripheral devices. To illustrate the utility of our platform, we also implement µfabryq, a breadboard prototyping platform similar to Arduino with functionality exposed over a JavaScript API built exclusively with fabryq.

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“…Almost two decades have elapsed since Fitzmaurice, Ishii and Buxton first explored the idea of graspable user interfaces [11]. Whereas then explorations required sophisticated engineering effort to set up a demonstration or a simple system to test with users, technologies such as Phidgets [14], Arduino [3], Max MSP and .NET gadgeteer [31] have empowered a much larger and less technology savvy population of students, designers, and amateur enthusiast to create their own TEI technologies, to explore the ergonomic and aesthetic aspects of TEI's. Explorations of this kind are starting to reach the market with several commercial technologies now being available, such as the Sifteo cubes [22] and the TagTiles board [30], that allow the development of TEI's.…”

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Five key challenges in end-user development for tangible and embodied interaction

Tetteroo

Soute

Markopoulos

2013

Proceedings of the 15th ACM on International Conference on Multimodal Interaction

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As tangible and embodied systems are making the transition from the labs to everyday life, there is a growth in the applications related research and design work in this field. We argue that the potential of these technologies can be even further leveraged by enabling domain experts such as teachers, therapists and home owners to act as end-user developers in order to modify and create content for their tangible interactive systems. However, there are important issues that need to be addressed if we want to enable these end users to act as developers. In this paper we identify five key challenges for meta-designers in enabling end-users to develop for tangible and embodied interaction.

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.NET Gadgeteer: A Platform for Custom Devices

Cited by 89 publications

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meSch – Tools for Interactive Exhibitions

meSch – Tools for Interactive Exhibitions

Fabryq: Using Phones as Smart Proxies to Control Wearable Devices from the Web

Five key challenges in end-user development for tangible and embodied interaction

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