• have implemented armband and squeeze device as embeded mobile system with bluetooth capability.
• have implemented bluetooth communication part in windows mobile environment
• Partly finished IRB documents (need to more focused discussion of experiment design)
• To-Do: PDA networking programming (by Aug 15th, 2008); Device Testing(bye Aug 15th, 2008) ; Device evaluations(Aug 22th, 2008);Designs of full experiments(Aug 29th, 2008)

More issues need to solve by this week

Updates for last week

1. The contraction piece works
2. The prequestionnair survey is ready

After testing the contraction piece with armband, i found more issues for armband

1. The contraction piece needs to be closely or even directly attached to armband part. Current attachment seems not enough.
2. the elastic part of armband doesn't work well when attached with velco
3. looking for a waist bag to contain circuit board, bluetooth, battery and squeezing ball

To-do list for this week

1. solve these issues mentioned above
2. get irb ready
3. internet communication with pda version

My Project Updates

Completed:
Armband Design
Squeeze Device Design
Communication between microcontroller and PDA via bluetooth

Still working on:
I&T armband
I&T squeeze device
IRB preparing &Experiment design

To do:
Convert networking programe into PDA version
design a series of experiments for hardware user study

Notes of Pillow Talk: Can We Afford Intimacy?

A growing trend within tangible and embedded interaction is a desire to express emotional qualities through interaction, accompanied by an interest in incorporating movement and human perceptual-motor abilities. Within HCI, intimacy is among an emerging set of experiential values that also include curiosity, enjoyment, resonance, play and self-awareness. This paper developed a small number of sensory-enhanced, soft, tactile, pliable, throw-able pillows as intimate everyday object. Techniques are developed to use the surface of pillows as a tactile intellgent interface. The main sensors integrated in interactive pillows are a touch-based interface for measuring presure and accelerometers to measure motions. Fans, vibrators and light sources, either in the form of light emissive fibers or as a LED display. This paper proposed a notion of social intimacy and a scenario for social interaction.



Schiphorst, T., Nack, F., KauwATjoe, M., de Bakker, S., Stock, Aroyo, L., Rosillio, A. P., Schut, H., and Jaffe, N. 2007. PillowTalk: can we afford intimacy. In Proceedings of the 1st international Conference on Tangible and Embedded interaction (Baton Rouge, Louisiana, February 15 - 17, 2007). TEI '07. ACM, New York, NY, 23-30. DOI= http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1226969.1226975

First post

Welcome to my research blog!
Surprising? Yes, this is a RESEARCH blog. It is suggested by my advisor. Blogging is a good way to keep a track of papers, books that i have read, questions, thoughts that came into my mind about my research. Critial reading, critial thinking and critical writing will be the theme of this blog.
OK, let me start!