Revisiting CHI 2011: Videos of Interactive Touch, Gesture, Large Surface, and Mobile Apps with Potential for Use in Education (CHI = Computer Human Interaction)

One of my interests is how the power and potential post-WIMP interactive technologies can be harnessed for use for formal and informal education purposes, including life-long collaborative learning.  


In May, I had a chance to meet with a number of like-minded people during the CHI 2011 conference at the 2nd Workshop on UI Technologies and Impact on Educational Pedagogy.  I was impressed with the depth and breadth of the presentations at the workshop.   Since then, I've been looking through other papers and videos from CHI 2011 to find interesting applications that hold potential for use in educational settings.  


I've come across a good number of interesting applications and prototypes, so be sure to check back for future posts on this topic.  For now, here are a few applications that I'd like to share.  


Below are a few videos from Phillip Chi-Wing Fu.  (He doesn't know it yet, but I've admitted his videos into the Post-WIMP Explorers' Club.)


Interactive Multi-touch Sketching Interface for Diffusion Curves

"A novel multi-touch sketching interface enabling interactive and practical design with 2D diffusion curves is proposed; featured interaction techniques include simultaneous sketching of multiple diffusion curves and at-the-spot colors tuning."


Distinguishing Multiple Smart-Phone Interactions on a Multi-touch Wall Display using Tilt Correlation

"This paper proposes a novel matching technique, called tilt correlation, which employs the built-in tilt sensor on smart-phones to identify their concurrent contacts on a common multi-touch wall display."


WYSIWYF: Exploring and Annotating Volume Data with a Tangible Handheld Device (CHI 2011)


"Integration of a multi-touch wall display with a tangible handheld device with multi-touch and tilt sensing capabilities to provide intuitive what-you-see-is-what-you-feel visual exploration and annotation of volume data."


The following videos were uploaded by alucero:


Pass-Them-Around: Collaborative Use of Mobile Phones for Photo Sharing (CHI 2011)

"Pass-Them-Around is a phone-based application that allows a small group of collocated people to share photos using the metaphor of passing paper photos around. The prototype encourages people to share their devices and use them interchangeably while discussing photos face-to-face. The prototype supports ad-hoc photo sharing in different contexts by taking into account the spatial arrangement of users around a table, measured with sensors embedded in their mobile phones."


The next video was part of MobileHCI '10:
MindMap: Collaborative Use of Mobile Phones for Brainstorming

Update: I'm using Google+ , link to a good article on the topic - WAS: I want to explore GooglePlus. I've been invited, but Google won't let me come inside to play!

Update:  I am exploring Google+,  in the meantime, take a look at the following article:

Google+ is Awesome, Facebook Maimed, Twitter Mortally Wounded?

Keith Kleiner, Singularity Hub, 4/6/11

My recent blog post linking to an article about Google + and education was found by someone searching for "Google Plus". It was the fourth link in the search.   

I've been invited to join Google+, but Google isn't ready to let me in to play!

Interesting article about Google Plus and Social Tools for Schools (Audrey Watters, ReadWrite Web)

I've been invited to Google Plus, but can't play there yet until further notice.  In the meantime, I'd like to share an interesting article about the potential for Google Plus for use in education settings:


Google Plus: Is This the Social Tool Schools Have Been Waiting For?
Audrey Watters, ReadWrite Web, 4/2/11)


Thanks to Stephanie Richardson for the link!

Augmented Reality Cookies: Link to video and website for QKies, a new twist that blends cookies and AR.

QKies is a cooperative project of Juchem Gruppe, a German food trade company, and DFKI, the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence.  QKies is a special twist on baking cookies that involves the use of QR codes that people can share as they share cookies with others:

"Give your friends and acquaintances cookies, they send you directly to a specific site. For example, this can be a video on YouTube, a photo from Flickr or your own website."



Below is a picture from a blog post about QKies:

-Bemme51 

Here is an introductory video of the product, in German:

QKies - sag's mit Keksen from r3 media on Vimeo.

Below is a video created by Johannes Schoening of his augmented reality Christmas Cookies.  The idea for the concept, as you see, started out as a joke, after his wife asked him to bake some cookies for the holidays. 




Johannes worked as a senior researcher at DFKI and is now following his new motto,  "Baked to the Future" at "people interactive" (http://www.people-interactive.de/) in Cologne.

GarageBand on the iPad2 is Awesome!

For just $4.99, this app has given me hours of joy - and I've only had it for a week!  The first time I played around with it, I exclaimed that I no longer have a need for my Motif 8 keyboard.

(Seriously, my husband now thinks I'll be unloading my keyboard on eBay or Craigslist soon.)

Below are a couple of videos to give you an idea of what the iPad version of GarageBand is all about:

GarageBand for iPad



Be sure to visit soon for an update - I'll include videos of my own.

Link: Learn more about Google +

I'm writing this post from a cruise ship, so I'll write more about Google's spin on social networking upon my return. In the meantime, take a look at the Google+ "Learn more about Google+"site!


I also plan on writing a few posts about tablets, as I'm a new user of an iPad 2. BTW, Garage Band on the iPad 2 is awesome.