research tips for multi-touch surface construction
Strato first: Good work with the pmwiki, ning and tumbler. I like the tumblr integration on the gestus ning. I feel this can both motivate you to document daily progress reports, and make the research process on your dissertation transparent to all those who are interested. I am certain it will contribute to the impact and quality of your work.
You should add some more pages on the gestus ning to inform us about the content of what you are doing. Put a link to the pmwiki on a visible place in the ning front page. Create a text widget and put it on the central part of the ning for this purpose. As an example see http://yasmin2.ning.com. You could start translating the dissertation proposal into english, then upload a pdf both on ning and on pmwiki. Send me your translation for review before you upload it.
To extend the nings menu go to Manage -> Tab Manager. Adding tabs creates new menu items. Making them subtabs creates a vertical menu underneath a tab/menu item. See yastmin2.ning.com and http://artandcode.ning.com for examples.
For the research on muliti-touch surface construction: Create a page called “links”. There you should look for and collect links to any website that contatins useful information about constructing a multi-touch surface. Then make a summary of the points of each website, evaluate them, and from these create a final report that outlines how you could build your own multi-touch surface cost-effectively. Include on the list of links any forums or mailing lists that deal with multi-touch surfaces, including reactable or other related types of interfaces.
IZ Mon, June 1 ‘09, 07:21 PM
