Week 1: Introduction and Assignment 1
The consulates of several Latin American countries are preparing an outdoor exhibition of Latin American artists at Luzánky Park next Spring. This exhibition will include paintings, sculptures, music, and film from Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, and Mexico. For the exhibition, the organizers will set up digital kiosks (touch-enabled displays) throughout the park that will allow visitors to learn about the artists, the artworks, experience the music and videos, as well as find information about the location of park’s facilities such as bathrooms, public phones, ATMs, and public transportation.
Your task in this project is to design the interface and the content of the kiosks for the exhibition. It is up to you to conduct research and decide the exhibition‘s theme, what kind of content people can access, the artists and artwork featured, and collect all visual mate- rial. Prototyping for this assignment will be done exclusively using Adobe InDesign, while creating any multimedia content can rely on other software. Kiosks will be designed using 1080p resolution in 55” displays in vertical format.
To submit:
• Original InDesign files
• Video walkthrough of the features.
MUST READ:
Jacob, R. J., Girouard, A., Hirshfield, L. M., Horn, M. S., Shaer, O., Solovey, E. T., & Zigelbaum, J. (2008). Reality-based Interaction: A Framework for Post-WIMP Interfaces. Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 201–210. Florence, Italy: ACM. Retrieved from http://dl.acm.org/citation. cfm?id=1357089
Valli, A. (2008). The Design of Natural Interaction. Multimedia Tools
and Applications, 38(3), 295–305. doi: 10.1007/s11042-007-0190-z
Assignments
1. Required: Read Valli (2008) and Jacob et al (2008) papers on tangible interaction
2. Research: Start planning and collecting the content
3. Define the theme of the exhibition.