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Developing Responsive and Interactive Environments with the ROSS Toolkit

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Andrea Bellucci,

Aneesh P. Tarun,

Ahmed Sabbir Arif,

Ali MazalekAuthors Info & Claims

TEI '16: Proceedings of the TEI '16: Tenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction

Pages 782 - 785

https://doi.org/10.1145/2839462.2854123

Published: 14 February 2016 Publication History

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TEI researchers/designers are often discouraged from building complex interactive environments by the requirement of high technical knowledge. In this studio/workshop, we present the ROSS Toolkit that offers tools to abstract/automate low-level programming of technical details, thereby simplifying the design and programming of interactions between heterogeneous networked devices. Participants will be first introduced to the toolkit functionality to cope with different technical issues. In a second part, they will experiment with the toolkit by developing use cases of increasing complexity that will involve off-the-shelf devices, interactive surfaces, and custom-made tangible artifacts. We expect participants to learn what are the opportunities and challenges for the development of responsive and interactive environments.

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Developing Responsive and Interactive Environments with the ROSS Toolkit
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)

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TEI '16: Proceedings of the TEI '16: Tenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction

February 2016

820 pages

ISBN:9781450335829

DOI:10.1145/2839462

Conference Chairs:
Saskia Bakker,
Caroline Hummels,
Brygg Ullmer,
Program Chairs:
Luc Geurts,
Bart Hengeveld,
Daniel Saakes,
Publications Chair:
Mendel Broekhuijsen

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TEI '16: Tenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction

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Eindhoven, Netherlands

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