Do Mobile Phones Dream of Electric Orchestras? Georg Essl Electrical Engineering & Computer Science and Music University of Michigan CS4HS 2009
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Mobile phones… are growing in numbers – (and shrinking in size) transcend cultural, economic barrier offer ever-increasing computational power offer strength in numbers are ubiquitous and ultra-portable get more and more fun sensors to exploit
Interactive Applications… are fun! – (and educational) transcend cultural, economic barrier offer new challenges for HCI drive and are driven by technology lots of people like to be active and engaged
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The Gain New HCI: interactive interfaces, non-standard use of sensors New CS: Networking mobile devices at interactive rates Cousin: Mobile gaming Technology is easy to disseminate (mobile phone app stores) Challenge: Turning users into creators
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THANKS! Collaborators: Michael Rohs, Sven Kratz, Martin Roth (TU-Berlin) Ge Wang (CCRMA Stanford University) Henri Penttinen (Helsinki University of Technology)