Astral: Prototyping mobile and smart object interactive behaviours using familiar applications

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  • David Ledo
  • Jo Vermeulen
  • Sheelagh Carpendale
  • Saul Greenberg
  • Lora Oehlberg
  • Sebastian Boring

Astral is a prototyping tool for authoring mobile and smart object interactive behaviours. It mirrors selected display contents of desktop applications onto mobile devices (smartphones and smartwatches), and streams/remaps mobile sensor data to desktop input events (mouse or keyboard) to manipulate selected desktop contents. This allows designers to use familiar desktop applications (e.g. PowerPoint, AfterEffects) to prototype rich interactive behaviours. Astral combines and integrates display mirroring, sensor streaming and input remapping, where designers can exploit familiar desktop applications to prototype, explore and fine-tune dynamic interactive behaviours. With Astral, designers can visually author rules to test real-time behaviours while interactions take place, as well as after the interaction has occurred. We demonstrate Astral's applicability, workflow and expressiveness within the interaction design process through both new examples and replication of prior approaches that illustrate how various familiar desktop applications are leveraged and repurposed.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationDIS 2019 - Proceedings of the 2019 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference
Number of pages14
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery
Publication date2019
Pages711-724
ISBN (Electronic)9781450358507
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2019
Event2019 ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems, DIS 2019 - San Diego, United States
Duration: 23 Jun 201928 Jun 2019

Conference

Conference2019 ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems, DIS 2019
LandUnited States
BySan Diego
Periode23/06/201928/06/2019
SponsorAdobe, Google, Sketch, UC San Diego's Design Lab, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
SeriesDIS 2019 - Proceedings of the 2019 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference

    Research areas

  • Design tool, Interactive behaviour, Mobile interfaces, Prototyping, Smart objects

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