This project put my prototyping and design-research skills to the test. After coming in to the project after it was started, I took a significant amount of time to learn where the team wanted to head and how I could help. The team wanted to study user engagement using a Diamond Touch Table, and I was expected to help make the interactions work. After tackling the technological hurdles the medium presented, the team packaged up all 10 interactions and put them in front of users (as seen in the video above). This was a valuable experience, as I was able to see how people quickly began to exhibit behaviors at the table that we did not even imagine. I also helped to go through the data with the team, and helped to present our findings at Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces 2009, where I had to defend our study and articulate our results to a worldwide community.
- Reviewed current research on user engagement in a tabletop environment
- Paper prototyped each design interaction before creating them in Flash
- Helped to organize the study and research methods used to evaluate user engagement
- Utilized self-reporting and video data to generate data used in our research findings