Studio at the 15th ACM International Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction (TEI)
View the Project on GitHub TactileVision/TactJam-TEI2021
The studio is a one-day online event and will last about six hours divided into three sessions – think, pair, and share (see studio proposal).
When creating the schedule, we tried to take into account the different time zones as best as possible, see Table 1. The detailed schedule is shown in Table 2.
Table1: Studio start and end times.
| San Francisco PST (UTC-8) |
New York EST (UTC-5) |
Berlin CET (UTC+1) |
Tokyo JST (UTC+9) |
Melbourne AEDT (UTC+11) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saturday, Feb 20 6:00 – 12:00 |
Saturday, Feb 20 9:00 – 15:00 |
Saturday, Feb 20 15:00 – 21:00 |
Saturday, Feb 20 23:00 – 5:00 |
Sunday, Feb 21 1:00 – 7:00 |
Since a pure online event can be very exhausting for the participants, the organizers have tried to keep the schedule flexible. In addition to some breaks, there will also be sections in which the participants do not necessarily have to be online (e.g. while composing tactons). The organizers will however be available all the time for questions.
Table 2: Detailed studio schedule.
| Duration | Description | |
|---|---|---|
| Open |
40 minutes 20 minutes 10 minutes 10 minutes |
introducing the studio short presentation of the members, participants and topic introduction to theory (e.g. tactons) and the studio procedure introduction to hardware and software |
| Break | 10 minutes | |
| Think |
50 minutes 10 minutes 30 minutes 10 minutes |
exploring the setup get used to the system (manual and how-to) freely place actuators on the body and test some configurations create groups of 2–4 members and distribute 1–2 pictograms per group |
| Break | 30 minutes | |
| Pair |
110 minutes 90 minutes 10 minutes 10 minutes |
creating tactile pictograms abstraction of pictograms’ intention, map it to a tacton, and compare/discuss different solutions voting for the best tactile pictogram documentation in a predefined format |
| Break | 10 minutes | |
| Share |
80 minutes 50 minutes 30 minutes |
abstracting a general set of rules group-wise presentation of the tactons discuss impressions, pros, and cons and derive dos and don’ts |
| Break | 10 minutes | |
| Close |
20 minutes 20 minutes |
concluding the session summary of the results and outlook for further cooperation |