{"id":16020,"date":"2014-10-06T11:14:19","date_gmt":"2014-10-06T15:14:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/?p=16020"},"modified":"2014-10-06T11:14:19","modified_gmt":"2014-10-06T15:14:19","slug":"call-tei-conference-student-design-challenge-is-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/2014\/10\/06\/call-tei-conference-student-design-challenge-is-open\/","title":{"rendered":"[CALL] TEI Conference Student Design Challenge is open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tei-conf.org\/15\/student-design-competition\/\">http:\/\/www.tei-conf.org\/15\/student-design-competition\/<\/a><\/p>\n<header>\n<h1>Student Design Challenge: Tangible Remote Controls<\/h1>\n<\/header>\n<div>\n<h2>Important Dates<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>October 22, 2014, 11:59 pm PST: Entry submission deadline<\/li>\n<li>November 22, 2014:\u00a0Notification of Acceptance<\/li>\n<li>December 5, 2014,\u00a011:59 pm PST: Student Design Challenge team commitment and registration<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>The Challenge<\/h2>\n<p>The Internet of Things is curiously lacking in knobs and switches. Instead, it\u2019s controlled by a collection of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/worrydream.com\/ABriefRantOnTheFutureOfInteractionDesign\/\">glass rectangles<\/a>. Our hands do more than just touch and swipe, however. We have fingers that can feel, pinch, grip, turn, and point. They are attached to our arms, which act as levers to amplify the force we can exert with our hands. Our hands and arms are covered with nerve endings that give us intelligence about the world we live in that our eyes and ears can\u2019t fully deliver. History is littered with tools we\u2019ve designed to take full advantage of our hands. Even into the early electronic era, we have designed wonderfully informative tangible tools. Great tangible controls are not just input devices. They act as physical indicators of the state of a system that we read through our hands. The click of a switch gives us haptic feedback that the device has heard our commands. The arrangement of a row of sliders reads like a graph to our fingers. Good tangible interfaces are also well-coupled with the things they control, providing an immediate feedback loop. The feedback from a steering mechanism makes your body a part of the vehicle\u2019s movement, encouraging you to rely on more than just your eyes and ears.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tei-conf.org\/15\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/touch.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"touch\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tei-conf.org\/15\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/touch-1024x255.jpg\" width=\"625\" height=\"155\" \/><\/a>Everyday appliances have grown some wonderful new features thanks to digital technologies. Home lighting is no longer just white light, nor need it be strictly turned on and off with a single switch. Lighting designers (and consumers) can now play with color, intensity, and time in their lamps. Yet tablet device interfaces lack the convenience and immediacy of the switch, particularly when you\u2019re fumbling in the dark. How can you deliver on the promise of these new features, yet retain the convenience and tangible intelligence of the switch? This year\u2019s design challenge is to imagine a digital present that takes full advantage of the capabilities of your hands and arms and delivers not only control, but also feedback about the system it controls. What the everyday tangible controls of our daily life for the 21st century. What\u2019s the best tangible light switch for the Philips Hue? What\u2019s the track selector on a Spotify jukebox? What controls give a media editor the ability to think through his work with his body, shifting pieces, clipping and extending with his hands and arms? Design so that your user can take full advantage of the capabilities of her hands, both operating and learning from touch, feel, and position. Use no sound, and no more than 64 pixels* in your final design. Imagine devices that that allow your user to keep her eyes and ears on the task, not on the controls.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tei-conf.org\/15\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/display.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"display\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tei-conf.org\/15\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/display-1024x332.jpg\" width=\"625\" height=\"202\" \/><\/a>* For the purposes of this challenge, a\u00a0pixel could be one RGB LED, one\u00a0point of differentiatable haptic sensation, one square of fuzzy buzzing material, etc.\u00a0The goal here isn\u2019t to make a controller for up to 64 lights. The thing being controlled could be lights, but could\u00a0also be anything else.<\/p>\n<p>The student design challenge is generously sponsored by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.intel.com\/\">Intel<\/a>\u00a0this year.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Thanks to the following Flickr users for allowing us to use their photos:\u00a0Tom Igoe, photo of Adim Marom,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/tigoe\/4203114727\/\">Crank<\/a>;\u00a0Blogging Dagger,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/bloggingdagger\/4293797726\/\">Science Express 115<\/a>;\u00a0Marcin Chady,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/marcinchady\/2480078146\/\">Bridge, Russian submarine<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>To submit<\/h2>\n<p>Mail PDFs and URLs for media content to\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:student_design@tei-conf.org\" target=\"_blank\">student_design@tei-conf.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>More Information<\/h2>\n<p>If you have further questions about the Student Design Challenge\u00a0for TEI 2015, see the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tei-conf.org\/15\/student-design-competition\/design-challenge-faq\/\">Design Challenge FAQ,<\/a>\u00a0or contact the Student Design Challenge\u00a0Chair\u00a0Tom Igoe\u00a0at\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:student_design@tei-conf.org\" target=\"_blank\">student_design@tei-conf.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/www.tei-conf.org\/15\/student-design-competition\/ Student Design Challenge: Tangible Remote Controls Important Dates October 22, 2014, 11:59 pm PST: Entry submission deadline November 22, 2014:\u00a0Notification of Acceptance December 5,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-call","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/122"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16020\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}