Reflective physical prototyping through integrated design, test, and analysis

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by Björn Hartmann , Scott R. Klemmer , Michael Bernstein Leith Abdulla

Venue:	UIST '06. ACM
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@INPROCEEDINGS{Hartmann06reflectivephysical,
    author = {Björn Hartmann and Scott R. Klemmer and Michael Bernstein Leith Abdulla},
    title = {Reflective physical prototyping through integrated design, test, and analysis},
    booktitle = {UIST '06. ACM},
    year = {2006},
    pages = {299--308}
}

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Prototyping is the pivotal activity that structures innovation, collaboration, and creativity in design. Prototypes embody design hypotheses and enable designers to test them. Framing design as a thinking-by-doing activity foregrounds iteration as a central concern. This paper presents d.tools, a toolkit that embodies an iterative-design-centered approach to prototyping information appliances. This work offers contributions in three areas. First, d.tools introduces a statechart-based visual design tool that provides a low threshold for early-stage prototyping, extensible through code for higher-fidelity prototypes. Second, our research introduces three important types of hardware extensibility — at the hardware-to-PC interface, the intra-hardware communication level, and the circuit level. Third, d.tools integrates design, test, and analysis of information appliances. We have evaluated d.tools through three studies: a laboratory study with thirteen participants; rebuilding prototypes of existing and emerging devices; and by observing seven student teams who built prototypes with d.tools. ACM Classification: H.5.2. [Information Interfaces]: User Interfaces — input devices and strategies; interaction styles; prototyping; user-centered design. D.2.2 [Software

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reflective physical prototyping integrated design information appliance important type low threshold early-stage prototyping student team iterative-design-centered approach acm classification research introduces interaction style intra-hardware communication level hardware extensibility statechart-based visual design tool pivotal activity laboratory study central concern prototype embody design hypothesis user-centered design information interface thinking-by-doing activity user interface input device circuit level higher-fidelity prototype enable designer thirteen participant hardware-to-pc interface

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