TactJam-TEI2021

Studio at the 15th ACM International Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction (TEI)

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TEI-Studio 2021

TOPICS AND LEARNING GOALS

STUDIO SCHEDULE

STUDIO SCHEDULE

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