UbiComp midterm presentation

1. At A Glance
Extending Digital Calendars
and Scheduling Systems
Ramsey Nasser
Kelly Nichols

2. Existing scheduling
software packages offer
good appointment and
task management.

3. Robust reminder and
notification strategies
are lacking.

4. We approach this as a
hardware issue.

5. How can digital scheduling
information reach the
places that PC and smart
phones can’t?

6. Information
The Need-To-Know Basics

7. Some Information

8. Less Information

9. Large Information

10. Materiality
Cross Out Tasks With a Hammer

11. Make Physical

12. Make Out of Sand

13. Make This Out of Sand

14. Glacially Kinetic

15. Hourglass Poetics

16. Light as Object

17. RGB != Screen

18. Prototype
Not a Lamp

19. Yes, we used LEDs.

20. What Was Prototyped
1. Persistent display of information in the
environment.
2. Display of abbreviated data set.
3. Dynamic display of information over
time.
4.Information display responding to on-
the-fly schedule revisions.

22. Thanks!