Wii Fit (health pack)

Using weight changes to design games
too clever!!!
http://e3.nintendo.com/wii_fit.html

- I especially like the soccer one, so creative
- original Wii: only move with upper part of body, now whole!

weekly report 7/2-7/8

Kitchen:

• interaction syles
• monitor is too obtrusive, not ambient
  
• mapping of plates vs. info (same vertical line)
• less visual info -> only calories (need to be confirmed with nutritionist)
  
• survey of nutritionist
  

Toothbrush:

• discussion
• read: submitted paper
  

Readings:

• D. Norman, "The Next UI Breakthrough, Part 2: Physicality", ACM Interations, vol. 14, issue 4, 2007
• embodiment -> physicality
• e.g. Wii
  
• K. P. Fishkin et al, "Embodied User Interfaces for Really Direct Manipulation", Communications of the ACM, vol. 43, No. 9, 2000
• embodied UI: allow users manipulate devices in a variety of ways
• D. Chisnell et al, "Where Technology Meets Green Bananas", ACM Interations, vol. 14, issue 3, 2007
• "don't want to wait for green bananas to ripen" -> analogy for learning technology: people don't want to have time for unfamiliar devices
• design for again
• D. Norman, "Simplicity is Highly Overrated", ACM Interations, vol. 14, issue 3, 2007
• he argues that people (customers) actually want to have more functions/features instead of simple design.
  
• L. Bonanni et al., Exploring Feedback and Persuasive Techniques at the Sink, ACM Interations, vol. 12, issue 4, 2005
• see how they present their works
  

Others:

• seminar - presentation: "Designing for Interaction"

weekly report 6/25 - 7/1

(haven’t reported for a long time )
Kitchen

• MMAI (Multimedia Analysis and Indexing) report – to solve the problem of weight noises via video analysis and image processing with camera
• AAI (Advanced AI) report – to solve the problem of weight matching inference (transference) via AI and video analysis
• demo (30th anniversary, 6/30)
• Discussion with Jenhao: summer plan and to do list

Readings

• R. Jacob et al, “chi2006: What is the next generation of human-computer interaction”, Interactions Magazine, vol. 14, Issue 3, 2007
• Reality-based interaction?
• http://www.cs.tufts.edu/~jacob/theory/
• D. Norman, “The Next UI Breakthrough: Command Lines”, Interactions Magazine, vol. 14, Issue 3, 2007
• History: command line à GUI à command line again, since GUI works well only when the number of alternative items or actions is small
• Command line: mail, desktop, search engine, OS, etc. à answer engine
• More efficiently, flexible, robust with synonyms (think about WordNet), labels, tags, esp. when files are difficult to manage with visual structure
• (recall the project of searching/executing applications by commands, shown in CHI07 and before)
• F. Sampson, “Why Do I Want Ambient Intelligence?”, Interactions Magazine, vol. 12, Issue 2, 2005
• Debate of intelligent in the environment with people
• W. Newman et al, “Guide to Successful Submission: Papers”, http://www.chi2005.org/cfp/guide.html, 2005
• Main: show contribution à let’s think about how to address our contribution of kitchen
• Focus on “tracking/providing nutritional information that traditional cooking process and methods can not provide”?
• 2 parts: technology (evaluate: accuracy); interface / information visualization (evaluate: how well people can get the info)
• Persuasion / behavior change: leave it to next stage?