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.com for a complete list of available devices) introduced by the GroupLab in 2001.
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 Phidgets.
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