Enhancing Creativity with Groupware Toolkits

Greenberg, Saul

doi:10.1007/978-3-540-39850-9_1

Cited by 8 publications

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“…Areas include collaborative writing (e.g., Lowry & Nunamaker, 2004), effects of shared displays for co-located groups (e.g., Morris, Morris, & Winograd, 2004), enhanced creativity with groupware toolkits (Greenberg, 2003), and so on.…”

Section: Collaborative Applicationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Issues in Building Multiuser Interfaces

Rao¹,

Luk²,

Warren³

2005

International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction

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The proliferation of interest in collaborative computer applications in the past decade has resulted in a corresponding increase in the interest in multiuser interfaces. This research seeks to contribute to an understanding of the process of developing user models for group interaction and to the design and implementation of multiuser interfaces based on the model. Group ranking was used as an exemplar task. User requirements were identified by observing groups perform the ranking task in a noncomputer environment. A design was proposed based on the identified requirements and a prototype implemented. Feedback from informal user evaluation of the implemented interface is reported. Insights on the methodology are discussed.

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Section: Collaborative Applicationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Issues in Building Multiuser Interfaces

Rao¹,

Luk²,

Warren³

2005

International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction

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“…From a design standpoint the approach that GroupLab researchers have taken outlines methodologies for toolkit design, as expressed through the HapticTouch and Proximity Toolkits [17,18], Phidgets [11], as well as publications on enhancing creativity through the use of toolkits [12,13]. We apply their approach to toolkit design towards a creative-coding API.…”

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C4

Kirton

Boring

Baur

et al. 2013

Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction

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Although there has been widespread proliferation of creative-coding programming languages, the design of many toolkits and application programming interfaces (APIs) for expression and interactivity do not take full advantages of the unique space of mobile multitouch devices. In designing a new API for this space we first consider five major problem spaces and present an architecture that attempts to address these to move beyond the low-level manipulation of graphics giving first-class status to media objects.We present the architecture and design of a new API, called C4, that takes advantage of Objective-C, a powerful yet more complicated lower-level language, while remaining simple and easy to use. We have also designed this API in such a way that the software applications that can be produced are efficient and light on system resources, culminating in a prototyping language suited for the rapid development of expressive mobile applications. The API clearly presents designs for a set of objects that are tightly integrated with multitouch capabilities of hardware devices. C4 allows the programmer to work with media as first-class objects; it also provides techniques for easily integrating touch and gestural interaction, as well as rich animations, into expressive interfaces.To illustrate C4 we present simple concrete examples of the API, a comparison of alternative implementation options, performance benchmarks, and two interactive artworks developed by independent artists. We also discuss observations of C4 as it was used during workshops and an extended 4-week residency.

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“…In conclusion, the prototyping of active manipulations requires advanced electronic skills. Several commercial and open-hardware toolkits have appeared to provide these processes [12,33,2]. These hardware toolkits contain a set of electronic microcontrollers, sensors and actuators which can be used by designers to easily assemble and embed the sensors and actuators into conventional objects, and to connect them to a computer system.…”

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Lowering the threshold and raising the ceiling of tangible expressiveness in hybrid board-games

Marco

Cerezo

Baldassarri

2014

Multimed Tools Appl

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Tabletop devices offer an attractive environment for the creation of hybrid boardgames that seamlessly integrate physical and digital interaction. However, the prototyping of Tangible User Interfaces involves the integration of physical and virtual aspects, challenging both designers and developers, and hindering the rapid exploration of richer physical interactions with the game. Although the recent appearance of tabletop frameworks has helped to lower the threshold for coding tangible tabletop applications, the cost is a serious limitation on the degree of expressiveness of the tangible interaction. This paper presents "ToyVision", a software framework for the prototyping of tabletop games based on the manipulation of conventional playing pieces. ToyVision architecture is based on a Widget layer of abstraction that is able to express the manipulation of playing pieces in the context of the game. This Widget layer supports a wide range of passive and active manipulations with conventional objects. Designers and developers can visually model all passive and active manipulations involved in their game concepts in a Graphic Assistant, and test them immediately in a tabletop device. The paper also describes a set of evaluation sessions which demonstrate that ToyVision has been effective in lowering the threshold of developing applications for tabletop devices, while being sufficiently expressive to give support to innovative concepts for hybrid games that fully explore the tangible feasibilities of conventional playing pieces.

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Enhancing Creativity with Groupware Toolkits

Cited by 8 publications

References 14 publications

Issues in Building Multiuser Interfaces

Issues in Building Multiuser Interfaces

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Lowering the threshold and raising the ceiling of tangible expressiveness in hybrid board-games

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