Idea Sketches

Off the cuff ideas to ponder...

Every now and then I or my students have an idea... may be a bad one, perhaps a good one, or perhaps something that really needs discussion, reflection, checking, etc. I use this page to collect them. These include a mix of good, bad, mediocre ideas... the idea is to have many ideas! Don't look for deeper meanings.

• Sand animation And Another This seams like a natural fit / application for a tabletop display.
• Exploring MultiUser Speech and Gesture Interaction When multiple people are interacting over a shared digital tabletop, they often communicate with others using many speech and gestural actions. Example applications show multi user interaction with Google Earth, Warcraft III, and The Sims
• Universal Viewer
• Two places at once: a Twinned Media Space in progress.
• A matter of Scale: Computational perspectives of accumulation.
• RFID Pick and Drop.
• User ID plus Attentive MultiDisplay
• GPS Study for hiking blogs
• Patterns for dMVC
• realtime protocols for a Shared Dictionary
• Aging in place
• Personal Archive
• How kids play games
• How kids use the internet for project research
• From afar to up close on vertical display walls
• Awareness icons
• Plausible Deniability
• Session Managers in Groupware - Case Studies
• The Overlap between Family and Work Calendars
• Split vs. Concurrent Chat