Sensory Communication

Contains table of contents for Section 2, an introduction and reports on twelve research projects.National Institutes of Health Grant R01 DC00117National Institutes of Health Grant R01 DC02032National Institutes of Health/National Institute of Deafness and Other Communication Disorders Grant 2 R01 DC00126National Institutes of Health Grant 2 R01 DC00270National Institutes of Health Contract N01 DC-5-2107National Institutes of Health Grant 2 R01 DC00100U.S. Navy - Office of Naval Research Grant N61339-96-K-0002U.S. Navy - Office of Naval Research Grant N61339-96-K-0003U.S. Navy - Office of Naval Research Grant N00014-97-1-0635U.S. Navy - Office of Naval Research Grant N00014-97-1-0655U.S. Navy - Office of Naval Research Subcontract 40167U.S. Navy - Office of Naval Research Grant N00014-96-1-0379U.S. Air Force - Office of Scientific Research Grant F49620-96-1-0202National Institutes of Health Grant RO1 NS33778Massachusetts General Hospital, Center for Innovative Minimally Invasive Therapy Research Fellowship Gran

Sensory Communication

Contains table of contents for Section 2, an introduction and reports on fourteen research projects.National Institutes of Health Grant RO1 DC00117National Institutes of Health Grant RO1 DC02032National Institutes of Health/National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders Grant R01 DC00126National Institutes of Health Grant R01 DC00270National Institutes of Health Contract N01 DC52107U.S. Navy - Office of Naval Research/Naval Air Warfare Center Contract N61339-95-K-0014U.S. Navy - Office of Naval Research/Naval Air Warfare Center Contract N61339-96-K-0003U.S. Navy - Office of Naval Research Grant N00014-96-1-0379U.S. Air Force - Office of Scientific Research Grant F49620-95-1-0176U.S. Air Force - Office of Scientific Research Grant F49620-96-1-0202U.S. Navy - Office of Naval Research Subcontract 40167U.S. Navy - Office of Naval Research/Naval Air Warfare Center Contract N61339-96-K-0002National Institutes of Health Grant R01-NS33778U.S. Navy - Office of Naval Research Grant N00014-92-J-184

Bringing Together New Media Artists and Multimedia Technologies

First International Workshop, Bridging the Gap: Bringing Together New Media Artists and Multimedia Technologies Zyklodeon is a highly visual, highly interactive software construction kit. Players create cartoon-like dancers and endow them with properties that influence emergence of cyclic timing and movement patterns. This paper describes interactions within the initial prototype

Kits for Learning and a Kit for Kitmaking

We bring together concerns in software design and learning theory through creation of a Java framework for development of software construction kits. The kits are highly visual and highly interactive, and are premised on the notion of "microworlds" as environments for learning and learning research [6]. Usage of four existing kits is informing development of the framework, which in turn we are applying to development of a new kit. The kits support construction of two-dimensional, graphical structures that behave in characteristic ways when activated. We employ design heuristics of "object permanence," "transparency," and use of multiple simultaneous views to illustrate shifts of scale, perspective, time, and representation. Broader use of the general "Kit4Kits" will help us address viability of our "elements and operations" design approach

Designing Building Processes in Software Construction Kits

We have developed a genre of software construction kits and a framework for developing them, which is both conceptual and structural. The kits are highly graphical and highly interactive

Toward Patterns for the "Quality without a Name"

We offer an interaction design pattern for selecting instantiations of a given device, and suggest additional points for discussion at the CHI'2000 workshop on interaction design patterns. We emphasize the need for thoughtful documentation of the purpose of design patterns, and the importance of applying them in a participatory design framework. We recommend that case studies of practioners formulating and applying such patterns precede production of a report on the range of interaction design patterns

Zyklodeon: A Software Construction Kit Modeling Cyclic Timing Patterns

Zyklodeon is a highly visual, highly interactive software construction kit

Approaches to Processes of Construction in Software Kits

Windowing Toolkit. This framework, called the "Kit4Kits," supports generation of software kits that are highly graphical and highly interactive. They are characterized by two main processes: players' building of objects from graphical elements, and the software's activation of the constructions