Abstract

TEI researchers and designers are often discouraged from building responsive and interactive environments by the requirement of high technical knowledge. In this workshop, we present the ROSS Toolkit that offers tools to abstract/automate low-level programming of technical details, thereby simplifying the design and programming of interactions between heterogeneous networked devices. Participants will be first introduced to the toolkit functionality to cope with different technical issues. In a second part, they will experiment with the toolkit by developing use cases of increasing complexity that will involve off-the-shelf devices, interactive surfaces, and custom-made tangible artifacts. We expect participants to learn what are the opportunities and challenges for the development of responsive and interactive environments.

Audience and Background

This tutorial is intended for researchers and designers who are interested in building responsive and interactive environments. Some knowledge of HTML5 and JavaScript would be a plus. Participants are expected to bring their own laptops for design and development.

Studio-Workshop Structure

Our Studio-Workshop will go through two main phases. In the morning, participants will be introduced to the topics of the Studio-Workshop: (1) responsive and interactive environments and interaction infrastructures and (2) the ROSS Toolkit. In the afternoon, they will use the toolkit to develop use cases and, at the end, there will be a discussion to break down how can we design a toolkit to simplify the development of responsive and interactive environments by TEI researchers/designers with different backgrounds and programming expertise.

Downloads

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Reading Materials

Watch this video to know more about the previous version of the ROSS Toolkit

Organizers

Andrea Bellucci

Andrea Bellucci

Assistant Professor
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
abellucc@inf.uc3m.es

Aneesh P. Tarun

Aneesh P. Tarun

Research Assistant
Synaesthetic Media Laboratory (Synlab)
Ryerson University
aneesh@ryerson.ca

Ahmed Sabbir Arif

Ahmed Sabbir Arif

Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Synaesthetic Media Laboratory (Synlab)
Ryerson University
asarif@ryerson.ca

Ali Mazalek

Ali Mazalek

Canada Research Chair, Director
Synaesthetic Media Laboratory (Synlab)
Ryerson University
mazalek@ryerson.ca