Multi-touch application developed by an all-woman team from South Dakota School of Mines and Technology for the Imagine Cup Competition |
| Posted: 28 Apr 2010 03:59 PM PDT According to a recent article from the Microsoft News Center, "statistics from high schools and universities suggest that percentage won't change any time soon. Only 17 percent of Advanced Placement (AP) computer science test-takers in 2008 were women, even though women represented more than half of all AP test-takers. At the college level, fewer than one in five computer and information science degrees were awarded to women." Microsoft's Imagine Cup competition is a way to encourage female students that they can use technology to help make the world a better place, and that computer science is a field that provides an outlet for creativity a innovation. One of the teams that participated in the Imagine Cup Competition was "Team Blob". The young women in this team attend South Dakota School of Mines and Technology. Their work can be seen in the video presentation of Team Blob's Multi-touch Designer, which allows teachers to create multi-touch presentations for their students. The application was written in C# using Windows Presentation Foundation. The team developed a interactive timeline to highlight history's famous women in math and science, and demonstrated it on a 40-inch multi-touch table to girls who visited their university campus. The time-line can be seen in the video clip at about 3:34.  "Team Blob members, from left, Lori Rebenitsch, Robyn Krage and Jaelle Scheuerman demo their application that aims to bring emerging multitouch technology into K-12 classrooms. The all-woman team is from the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology." http://interactivemultimediatechnology.blogspot.com  |
| Posted: 28 Apr 2010 03:00 PM PDT Cindy Chastain is a Creative Director, Experience Architecture at Rapp, a global, full-service agency in NYC. Her background is in screen-writing. She also is a film-maker and technology consultant. The video below is of her presentation at IXDA 2010. It is well worth the 47 minute watch! Here is a quote from Nasir Barday's post on the IXDA blog about Cindy Chastain's presentation: "Designing with a narrative in mind can make a difference between a product that merely functions well and a product that engages the minds, emotions and imaginations of users." Nasir Barday, IXDA 2/26/10 Here are a few quotes from the presentation: "How can we, as designers, provide cues that will deepen that narrative connection?" "What can we learn from the discipline of storytelling that will help us design for more meaningful and engaging product experiences?" "If we can move away from thinking of products in terms of interfaces and start thinking of them as representations or environments, in which agents perform actions, we will get us to a place where we can design more fluid and engaging dialogues/experiences." Cindy Chastain-Thinking Like a Storyteller from Interaction Design Association on Vimeo. Near the beginning of this video, Cindy discusses the concept of the user's narrative, described as a stream of self-talk occurs when someone interacts with a design product. Two types of narratives are likely to occur. According to Cindy, this phenomenon was noted by cognitive scientists. One is narrative of use, and involves the person's self-talk about the products features and affordances. The other is a personal narrative, which focuses on what the product means, how it might fit into one's life, and how it might be used. http://interactivemultimediatechnology.blogspot.com  |
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