The calder toolkit: wired and wireless components for rapidly prototyping interactive devices

Toolkits and other tools have dramatically reduced the time and technical expertise needed to design and implement graphical user interfaces (GUIs) allowing high-quality, iterative, user-centered design to become a common practice. Unfortunately the generation of functioning prototypes for physical interactive devices as not had similar support – it still requires substantial time and effort by individuals with highly specialized skills and tools. This creates a divide between a designers’ ability to explore form and interactivity of product designs and the ability to iterate on the basis of high fidelity interactive experiences with a functioning prototype. To help overcome this difficulty we have developed the Calder hardware toolkit. Calder is a development environment for rapidly exploring and prototyping functional physical interactive devices. Calder provides a set of reusable small input and output components, and integration into existing interface prototyping environments...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2004
• Where: ACMDIS
• Authors: Johnny C. Lee, Daniel Avrahami, Scott E. Hudson, Jodi Forlizzi, Paul H. Dietz, Darren Leigh
• Keywords: ACMDIS 2004, Calder Hardware Toolkit, Physical Interactive Devices, User Interfaces