Topic(s): Engineering
Tags: rapid+prototyping quartz+composer mobile+phones wireless+sensor
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iStuff Mobile is a rapid prototyping framework that accelerates the creation of low-fidelity functional prototypes of physical user interfaces for mobile phones. Quartz Composer, a visual programming environment from Apple, is used to add logic to the prototype.
Web site: http://research.nokia.com/people/tico_ballagas/istuff_mobile.html
Rafael Ballagas
Rafael "Tico" Ballagas is a Research Scientist at Nokia Research Center Palo Alto in the future user interfaces group. Currently, Tico is focusing on tools that support rapid prototyping and iterative design on the mobile platform. He has a long history of working with mobile devices, originally in 1997 as a member of the development team of Motorola's PageWriter 2000-- the world's first two-way pager, which has been ranked #13 on PC World's "The 50 Greatest Gadgets of the Past 50 Years".
He earned his Doctorate in computer science at RWTH Aachen University in Germany with a focus on designing, prototyping, and evaluating ubiquitous computing applications and interaction techniques. He has developed "Sweep" and "Point & Shoot" phonecam-based interactions for large public displays, and deployed the REXplorer pervasive game for tourists in Regensburg, Germany. He has also developed the iStuff and iStuff Mobile toolkits to allow designers to rapidly create physical, functional prototypes to explore novel ubiquitous computing applications. He also has degrees from Georgia Tech and Stanford University.
http://research.nokia.com/people/tico_ballagas/index.html