2 research outputs found
FreeIMU: An Open Hardware Framework for Orientation and Motion Sensing
Orientation and Motion Sensing are widely implemented on various consumer
products, such as mobile phones, tablets and cameras as they enable immediate
interaction with virtual information. The prototyping phase of any orientation
and motion sensing capable device is however a quite difficult process as it
may involve complex hardware designing, math algorithms and programming.
In this paper, we present FreeIMU, an Open Hardware Framework for prototyping
orientation and motion sensing capable devices. The framework consists in a
small circuit board containing various sensors and a software library, built on
top of the Arduino platform. Both the hardware and library are released under
open licences and supported by an active community allowing to be implemented
into research and commercial projects.Comment: 10 pages, 1 figur
Materials in Participatory Design Processes
This dissertation presents three years of academic inquiry into the question
of what role materials play in interaction design and participatory design
processes. The dissertation aims at developing conceptual tools, based on
Deweys pragmatism, for understanding how materials aid design reflection.
It has been developed using a research-through-design approach in which the
author has conducted practical design work in order to investigate and
experiment with using materials to scaffold design inquiry. The results of the
PhD work is submitted as seven separate papers, submitted to esteemed journals
and conferences within the field of interaction design and HCI.
The work is motivated both by the growing interest in materials in
interaction design and HCI and the interest in design processes and
collaboration within those fields. At the core of the dissertation lies an
interest in the many different materials used during the design process:
sketches, prototypes as well as the materials we shape products out of:
physical and digital materials now form a unity of computation and physical
materials that has given rise to a new research interest in design and
materiality.
The main results from the dissertation are an understanding of design
materials that draws on pragmatist philosophy. The papers and overview article
highlights how materials in a pragmatist perspective are more than the matter
out of which we shape an idea. Rather they structure the entire process of
inquiry, helping us frame problems, inspire solutions and try out these
solutions in practice. This framework, developed in several of the submitted
papers, is tested and illustrated through a series of experimental design
cases.Comment: 89 pages, PhD Dissertation - contains introductory comments, the
overview article, abstracts and links to all papers appended in the final
doctoral wor