Project: “Dynamic Rehearsal” Ubiquitous Computing Interface
Platform: Programmed in C# and XAML on the Microsoft Surface
Date: Fall 2009
Purpose: Created as a group final project for a course in Tangible User Interfaces, the Dynamic Rehearsal application is an aid for theatrical productions. Traditionally, it can be difficult for a director, cast or crew member to analyze or review either a single rehearsal or progress over time without taking copious notes. Our goals is to provide analyzed data about the rehearsal process to theatrical teams, increasing their ability to learn from rehearsals and rehearsal critiques without adding additional work to their rehearsal process. The ubiquitous interface includes a video camera that films rehearsals, RFID tags that record entrances and exits of actors, computerized pens that record and interpret notes taken, and a Microsoft Surface application that allows for the review of the data collected.
Over the course of a few weeks, our team moved from brainstorming to software design to a functional prototype. Though we experimented with video cameras, RFID tags, and computerized pens, we chose to spend the bulk of our time on the surface application, which now runs on Wellesley College’s Microsoft Surface with data recorded during rehearsals for a recent college theater production. I was personally responsible for much of the interface design and development, as well as helping with the C# and XAML and creating and maintaining the project’s website.
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