NIKVision at TEI’13

admin — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 15:23:22 +0000

Seventh International Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction

FabLab, universitat Pompeu Fabra. Barcelona. Spain

February, 2013

NIKVision had a strong presence during the TEI’13 conference. We organized a Studio workshop where participants created their own toys and games for NIKVision using our ToyVision toolkit. also, NIKVision was shown during the TEI Demo session where assistant could play with the game created during the Studio and with other NIKVision games.

ToyVision Studio at TEI’13 from Javier Marco on Vimeo.

ToyVision Demo session at TEI’13 from Javier Marco on Vimeo.

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TEI 2013 Studio

admin — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 17:16:56 +0000

I am organizing, together with Ian Oakley, Eva Cerezo and Sandra Baldassarri, a Studio workshop at the Seventh International Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction (TEI’13), the next 10th February at the Pompeu-Fabra University in Barcelona (Spain)

http://www.tei-conf.org/13/studios

Studio participants will design and prototype tangible board-games for the NIKVision Tabletop. The goal of this studio is to give designers and developers hands-on experience of developing a functional prototype of a tangible tabletop application without the intrinsic difficulties of managing electronic sensors, actuators and machine vision algorithms. During the studio attendees will complete a simple but conceptually complete tangible board-game prototype by abstracting the technologies and keeping focus on the application behaviours and the interactions between users, objects and the system. This will be achieved through using the ToyVision toolkit, a set of software tools that lowers the threshold of prototyping both the “bits” and the “atoms” of interactive tabletop games.