1. Touch Research
A project for Communication Design M1
HTWG Constance
Summer Term 2008
Part 0: Introduction, Topics, and Student Presentations (Class 1
and 2)

2. Introduction

3. Me, Myself, and I

4. You!

5. Participants
Dani Costa Filipe
Felix Seyfarth
Fan Zhang
Florian Roebig
Joel Lück
Laura Pabst
Liesa Maier
Stefan Herzet

6. Time and Place
On Wednesdays
8:45 AM – 11:15 AM
M003

7. Spaces
Organization & Private Presentations/ Results: http://
ww.serverkd.de
Public Results: http://tinyurl.com/4ufc7c and http://
www.slideshare.net/haraldf

8. Phase 1: Inspiration

9. Goal for the Next Session

10. Touch Tisch -> Touch History

11. A little bit of history …

12. 1. Pre-history: How did humans interact with computers between
1940 and 1970? Were there computers anyway?
2. CLI: How could one interact via a command line interface?
Disadvantages? Advantages?

13. 3. Mouse: Who invented the mouse? How did ancient mice look like?
4. Alternatives: Are there alternatives to the mouse?

14. 5. iPhone: Present the iPhone. What is special concerning HCI?
6. Bill Buxton: Present Bill Buxton’s overview of multi-touch.

15. Links

16. Konrad Zuse http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konrad_Zuse
ENIAC http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ENIAC
CLI http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Command_line_interface
Douglas Engelbart http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Engelbart
Finger gestures, mouse alternatives discussion on Fog Creek
Software http://discuss.fogcreek.com/joelonsoftware/default.asp?
cmd=show&ixPost=56366

17. iPhone ad http://www.apple.com/iphone/ads/ad5/
Edward Tufte’s iPhone video http://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/
iphone-video.adp
Bill Buxton on multi-touch http://www.billbuxton.com/
multitouchOverview.html
Four multi-touch videos
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcKqyn-gUbY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Id43juZ3_o0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4Kl3_aU1bY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttQOQDu-IQs

18. Student Presentations

19. 1. Pre-history: How did humans interact with computers between
1940 and 1970? Were there computers anyway?
2. CLI: How could one interact via a command line interface?
Disadvantages? Advantages?

20. 3. Mouse: Who invented the mouse? How did ancient mice look like?
4. Alternatives: Are there alternatives to the mouse?

21. 5. iPhone: Present the iPhone. What is special concerning HCI?
6. Bill Buxton: Present Bill Buxton’s overview of multi-touch.

22. Credits

23. Via Creative Commons on flickr:
Libraryman www.flickr.com/libraryman/718450202/
Photocapy www.flickr.com/photocapy/250355140/
Philippe Tarbouriech www.flickr.com/phitar/7201140/
Dezz www.flickr.com/residae/2560241604/
Joe www.flickr.com/joesflickr/711358450/
Mike Bitzenhofer www.flickr.com/bitzcelt/1450900070/
Derrick Mealiffe www.flickr.com/dmealiffe/171720479/
Maurizio D'Arrigo www.flickr.com/keylosa/184606430/
Cheon Fong Liew www.flickr.com/liewcf/894035077/
Library of Congress www.flickr.com/library_of_congress/
2516566660/

24. University of Applied Sciences Constance, Faculty for
Communication Design, Project “Touch Research”:
http://www.htwg-konstanz.de
http://www.kd.fh-konstanz.de/dina8/daten_e.php?wodenn=will
http://www.felgner.ch/2008/04/touch_research.html