We had our first playtesting on Monday this week! For the playtesting this week, we tested all four demos including the rhythm game, the touch screen integration, the Wubi input, and the voice feedback. Generally, people are pretty curious about the Tap device. In fact, none of them has ever used a Tap or similar […]
Week 4 – Meet our prototypes
Week 4 has been a very busy week! At the beginning of the week, we first got together and decided that we would like to put our review of the TAP device together so that we can have a clearer and higher level image of the pros and cons of the device. And by far, […]
Week 3 – Prototyping
This week is definitely a cold one! We have got two days that CMU canceled all the classes in Pittsburgh. For the whole week, we mostly have been focusing on the prototyping. Erhan is working on a rhythm game with the TAP input on mobile devices and Yutian is also helping with that. Yutian has […]
Week 2 – Brainstorming
The most important thing for this week is that we have decided the guideline for our team: Project Houdini is a discovery project working with the Tap device, which is a wearable keyboard that can be used on multiple platforms with only one hand. The goal of the project is to explore the innovative use […]
Week 1 – Project Starts!
The school has started and so has our new semester project. Our project is focusing on a novelty interactive input device known as TAP from TAP Systems INC. TAP is a wearable, knuckle-shaped device that users put each finger into its sensing area. By tapping fingers on hard surfaces, the device will register the tap […]