1. Physical User Interfaces Information Visualization | Nicolai Marquardt Between Distributed Physical Devices Visualizing Event Flow Nicolai Marquardt University of Calgary, Canada Project proposal for course “Information Visualization” Winter 2009

2. Background: Prototyping User Interfaces Figures based on: Hiroshi Ishii, Tangible Media Group, MIT Media Lab

3. Motivation ? ?

4. Ducheneaut, N., et al. The Orbital Browser: Composing Ubicomp Services Using Only Rotation and Selection. In Ext. Abstracts of CHI’06. ACM Press, USA, 2006, 321–326. Newman, M. W., et al. User Interfaces When and Where They Are Needed: An Infrastructure for Recombinant Computing. In Proc. of UIST’02. ACM Press, USA, 2002, 171–180. Related Work: Orbital Browser

5. Related Work: Sensor Map Santanche, A., Nath, S., Liu, J., Priyantha, B., and Zhao, F. SenseWeb: Browsing the Physical World in Real Time. In Proc. of the Fifth Intl. Conf. on Information Processing in Sensor Networks - IPSN 2006. Nashville, TN, 2006. Nath, S., et al. SensorMap: a Web site for sensors world-wide. In Proc. of SenSys '06. ACM Press, USA, 373-374, 2006.

6. Marquardt, N. Developer Toolkit and Utilities for Rapidly Prototyping Distributed Physical User Interfaces. Master Thesis, Bauhaus University Weimar, Germany, 2008. Related Work: Shared Phidgets

7. Project  Network structure: source, processing/filter, sink  Real-time data  Diverse event data types Visualize event flow between distributed devices

8. 1 Representation of Devices and Events

9. 2 Time-dependent Semantic Zoom

11. Physical User Interfaces Information Visualization | Nicolai Marquardt Thank you for your attention Nicolai Marquardt University of Calgary, Canada Project proposal for course “Information Visualization” Winter 2009