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IoT Design – Masters Thesis

IoT Design – Masters Thesis

My Master’s thesis involved the creation of an Internet of Things interface, which I entitled “HomeNodes”. The HomeNodes interface was projected on to to objects. Users could connect objects together using a touch enabled wall interface and by tapping their smartphone on different objects.

The following is a short summary of my project:

  1.  Conduct low-fidelity prototyping sessions with users to explore the IoT design space.
  2. Research existing interactive systems
  3. Construct a prototype
  4. Test with users and use observation and video analysis
  5. Build a list of topics from this analysis that outlines the important design considerations and feedback for my IoT interface.

Video of the system in action:

The following images are version 1 and 2 of my systems. The green elements in the second image are technologies that I added to make the system more scalable. The thesis can be read and downloaded in full at this link. The code will be available on my GitHub.

Version 1

 

Final System (HomeNodes)

Wild Type – Interactive Web Logograms

Wild Typography – Interactive Web Logograms

The course Wild Type – Typography Ex Natura was given as an elective in my first semester of M.Sc. Human-Computer Interaction. The course, offered by Media Art and Design, gave insights into the construction of fonts outside of just graphics, svg and ttf editors. Abstract representations, generative and programmable fonts were among the topics discussed and explored. Processing was used to complete most of the assignments during the semester.

For the final assignment we were allowed to each individually create a language or font system. I created the logogram system “Geks”, which was a continuation of one of the earlier Wild Type projects. The interactive webpage can be found here with more details in the menu:

http://markeisenberg.org/WildType/index.html

NOTE: As of writing, this site does not work fully in Firefox, as it uses a drag and drop function not supported by Firefox.

Wild Type – Geks

Visualization

Data Visualization

For the Visualization course in the M.Sc. Human-Computer Interaction we were tasked with visualizing data in Java and some small parts in C++ and OpenGL.

The final project allowed individuals or teams to choose their own choice of visualization language. I chose to implement a two visualizations of Olympic medalists, a treemap and a dotplot. Both interactive visualizations use the same dataset. The visualization was developed using HTML, CSS, Javascript plus the d3.js library.

The link is live at: markeisenberg.github.io

Medal visualization d3.js

The Investigators Project

The Investigators Project

This project was part of my M.Sc in Human-Computer Interaction and took place between April – September 2016. The project was worked on by more than 15 people, 10 of which were students from Computer Science and Media Architecture. Two workshops were completed with the artist Krzysztof Wodiczko in preparation for the final event. The project was included as part of the Kunstfest Weimar event.

One of my main responsibilities in the project was managing and reconfiguring the WordPress website and writing content. Most of the processes and events have already been documented on the website which cn be found at:

https://www.uni-weimar.de/projekte/die-ermittler

Explanation of the installation