CSE 490 ra Pen computing capstone Richard Anderson AJ Bernheim Brush

Capstone classes Group project to draw together undergraduate experiences Domain goals User centered design Pen computing

Introductions Instructors Richard Anderson Professor of Computer Science and Engineering Joined UW in 1986 AJ Bernheim Brush Post Doc, Urban Sim project PhD from UW CSE TA Shengli Zhou

Workload Capstone Project User studies Project specification Working code Polished distribution Individual homework assignments Tablet PC exercises User centered design exercises

Project teams ~5 person teams Projects from selected list Project intros later in lecture Thursday – turn in project questionnaire Before Tuesday 4/8 groups formed

Resources Books About Face 2.0, The Essentials of Interaction Design. Alan Cooper and Robert Reimann (newly released at Amazon ~$25) Building Tablet PC Applications. Jarrett and Su, Microsoft Press

Computing Tablet PC sdk Visual Studio CSE Computing labs 5 Tablet PCs (Toshibas) are available for checkout from support

Plan for our course Intensive introduction to techniques that make up user centered design while building tablet application Research about users Interviews, market research Modeling of users Personas Goals Scenarios Prototypes

Plan for course Building application Testing and evaluation of software (time permitting) Heuristic Evaluation Usability testing

Pen based computing Long history of pen based devices Hardware advances for Tablet PC Wireless, digitizers, fast processors Tablet PC OS Microsoft extension of Windows XP Tablet PC Build by hardware manufacturers, but must meet MS spec

Tablet PC Form factor Tablet vs. laptop Pen Input Mobility High quality inking Digitizer Software Handwriting recognition

Projects Choose project from the following list Projects which will take some advantage of the Tablet PC Projects with users for design work Start with scoped project since we’ve only got 10 weeks

Assignment process Fill out questionnaire on Thursday Instructors will assign groups We may have multiple groups doing the same project

Project list Elevator service application Key frame animation Calendar on Tablet Pen based game UI Tablet based grading application Shared whiteboard for remote tutoring application

Elevator Service Application Last quarter’s CSE 490ra developed applications for an elevator service technician to use In collaboration with Schindler Elevator company

Team A

Team B

2-D Keyframe Animation Project In keyframe animation, you draw the several frames and then a program fills in the details in between. For this project build a tablet based keyframe animation system so users can more easily sketch the keyframes and also specify correspondence between keyframes. From: CadTutor – Keyframe Animation,

Keyframe Animation project Target Users could include: Professional animators, student animators Maneesh Agrawala from MSR/CSE will be assisting with this project.

Calendars on a Tablet Scheduling appointments seems like a natural match for pen based input. You write down dates and times and the application interprets your actions (or maybe just saves the ink). For this project there are a couple of different directions the group could go: A tablet interface to the online room and visitor scheduling system used by the CSE department. Target users could include: department course coordinators, staff that schedule visitors

Calendars on a Tablet A tablet interface for a personal calendar system (possibly integrated with Outlook or an open source system) Target users could include: Department advising staff, faculty

Pen based map navigation for games Many games involve maps in some way. From setting up pieces on a map or play that involves moving items around on maps (Risk, Rail Tycoon, Civilizations). For this project the group will design a pen based map navigation system for a game.  Important Note – This project will NOT focus on game design, rather on developing a pen based interface to an existing game. Target Users – Gamers Maneesh Agrawala from MSR/CSE will be assisting with this project.

Pen based map navigation

Tablet PC based grading system for 142/143 Paperless grading TAs mark up homework with ink On-line grading has not worked well in 14x Difficulty of entering comments TA’s hate grading at the desktop

Tutoring application Scenario Tutor a UW working with student in a local high school Telephone connection for audio Internet connection for shared whiteboard Tutor and student have tablet PCs Domain – Math / Engineering / Science