A little road map of my diploma project till my first guide visit.

1. Tangible User Interfaces for Industrial Users
Guide Review, 3rd May 2012
Chayan Deb, National Institute of Design

2. >“Achieve breadth before depth”
>Theory + Precedent Study
>Diploma Project Blog: http://diplomaprojectblog.tumblr.com/
>Session with SME: Intro to TUI + Brainstorming
>Mind map of emerged ideas
>Microsoft Surface
>Applications on Surface
>Development on Surface
>Leveraging on the Microsoft Surface’s capabilities:
>Direct Interaction
>Multi Touch
>Multi User Experience
>Object Recognition
Chayan Deb, National Institute of Design

3. >Narrowed down to “Alarm Handling”
>Search for Business Use Case
>Freelance Tool: Process control system
>Integrated environment for
engineering, controlling, operating, maintaining and managing
device(s)/system(s)
>2 Levels: Process Level (Control Builder), Operation Level (DigiVis)
>Alarms in the DigiVis
>Text based
>Tabular representatation
>Color coded
>Initial ideas
>Graphic based + Supporting text
>Schematic representation
>Alarm notice and acknowledgement
>Multi user alarm handling allocation
>Effect visualization
>Analytics
>India HCI 2012: Bathroom Ecologies Chayan Deb, National Institute of Design