Li Liu ” The good researcher is not ’one who knows the right answers’ but ’one who is struggling to find out what the right questions might be’ ” Phillips and Pugh, 1994 What is a ”project”? Project = ”Solving a problem” • What is the problem? • How to solve the problem? • How to know that the problem has been solved? • How good is the solution? A quality measure. How to enjoy football with your mobile phone One way is to use animation.. Live Experience! Vibration What is the ball? What is the ball? Information Transform! Control Patterns Task To develop and evaluate a vibration-based event rendering system for mobile users Lycksele djurpark blir digital Snart kommer det att bli möjligt att följa djuren på Lycksele djurpark enbart med hjälp av några klick på din dator. Forskare vid Umeå universitet har tilldelats EU-medel för att utveckla en digital djurpark. Though we might like to think that animals see the world with the same vivid colors and definition as human beings, perhaps just from different angles and perspectives, the truth is that vision differs greatly among animal species. Prairie Dog Though humans can see the entire visible light spectrum and would be able to appreciate the rich greens of the grass in the meadow on the left, prairie dogs and squirrels are red/green color blind, and only perceive the blues, yellows, and greys of the landscape. Shark Sharks do not possess the same variety of photoreceptors as humans. They have few retinal cones, and as a result, most have no color vision. Also, they have much larger rod receptors (which pick up light), with fewer numbers of them, so their vision is much less acute than ours. Task Select three kinds of animals from Lycksele Djurpark to imitate their visual world. iPhone Virtual Buttons Real Buttons vs Virtual Buttons ”Entry speed and error rate” Task To add the tactile cues of real buttons to virtual buttons displayed on mobile devices with touch screens.