OpenFrameworks, Arduino & Physical Interfaces

( How to Design Interaction and Influence People ) Stepping outside of the mouse/touch paradigm for a moment, this talk will be a quick tour of some of the different ways that you can think about designing physical interaction and some of the tools that you can use. We'll cover some of the strategies employed in interactive architecture to shape space, some approaches to building tangible physical interfaces, and strategies to connect multiple devices. I'll also be showing hardware and code using, among other things, Arduino and LilyPad controllers, XBee wireless transmitters, a variety of touch controls, openFrameworks, OpenCV, and the Julius Speech to Text library to explore some of those design concepts. Though this isn't a workshop per se- code downloads will be made available. You might never think of interaction design quite the same way again.

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Joshua Noble is a consultant and writer, based in New York City and
Portland, Oregon. He\'s the lead-author of O\'Reilly title \"Programming Interactivity: A Designer\'s Guide to Processing, Arduino, and Openframeworks\" (2009), Flex 3 Cookbook (2008), Flex 4 Cookbook (2010), as well as the ActionScript 3 Bible (2007). As a teacher, he taught at School of Museum of Fine Arts and Tufts University, as a consultant he\'s built websites, desktop applications, and architectural installations. He has written and lectured at colleges and conferences on interactive design and art. For fun he studies electronics, daydreams, and rides his bicycles.