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Research Visit of Nicolai Marquardt in Canada

Description

Nicolai Marquardt was a visiting research student at the GroupLab of the University of Calgary from September 2005 until February 2006. In the research project "Shared Phidgets" he has developed a toolkit for the rapid prototyping of distributed physical user interfaces. This project continues the work with the USB connected Phidget devices (see Phidgets.comexternal link for a complete list of available devices) introduced by the GroupLab in 2001.

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Figure 1. Phidget components: sensors (e.g., force, light, touch, temperature), RFID reader, interface kit, servo motors, and text LC displays.

The toolkit includes a server (with a shared dictionary instance), connection drivers (to share device status to the dictionary), tools to observe, simulate and control connected devices as well as a developer library with components that can be integrated into VisualStudio.NET. For more information, download and tutorials please visit the Project Page of Shared Phidgetsexternal link.

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Figure 2. The Shared Phidgets architecture: the server instance, connector tools, observe&control tools, and the developer library.


Past Events

  • Sep 01, 2005 - Project start in Calgary (with Prof. Saul Greenberg)
  • Dec 14, 2005 - First version of platform and developer toolkit
  • Feb 16, 2006 - Final project presentation in Calgary
  • Feb 16, 2006 - Release 1
  • Mar 30, 2006 - Finished research paper
  • Apr 13, 2006, 14.00 - Final project presentation in Weimar, Kinosaal, B11

Links

Resources

Project Report about the research and the stay in Calgary (PDF, German, 12.4 MB)
Project Report (Presentation Slides) with introduction of the GroupLab, the research projects and the details about the Shared Phidgets project (PDF, English, 38 MB)

People

Tom Gross (Supervisor Bauhaus University Weimar)
Saul Greenberg (Supervisor University of Calgary)
Nicolai Marquardt

Created by: tom.gross last modification: Wednesday 03 of May, 2006 [22:50:40 UTC] by marquardt