250A 2013 HW 3

DUE MONDAY 10/14

PART 1: Interaction Design Sketchbook by Bill Verplank

1 - Read this article:

https://ccrma.stanford.edu/courses/250a/lectures/IDSketchbok.pdf

2 - Analyze 1 existing music controller for elements of Bill Verplank's design methodology. Draw your best guess of how the creator of this device might have thought about thier project if they were using this methodology.

Here are some places that you should look for pre-existing controllers:

David Grunzweig http://www.nime.org/archive/ Erich Peske http://www.eecs.umich.edu/nime2012/Proceedings/NIME2012WebProceedings.html Gabriele Carotti-Sha "http://createdigitalmusic.com/full-archives/ (Look through entries from 2013) Micah Arvey http://www.nime.org/2008/ Rooney Pitchford "http://createdigitalmusic.com/full-archives/ (Look through entries from 2012) Elliot Kermit-Canfield http://nime2013.kaist.ac.kr/program/schedule/ Brandon Cheung "http://createdigitalmusic.com/full-archives/ (Look through entries from 2011) Dan Somen http://www.nime.org/archive/?mode=ylist&y=2007 Andrew Forsyth "http://createdigitalmusic.com/full-archives/ (Look through entries from 2010) Justin Li http://www.nime.org/archive/?mode=ylist&y=2006 Cooper Newby http://createdigitalmusic.com/full-archives/ (Look through entries from 2009) Pablo Castellanos Macin http://www.nime.org/archive/?mode=ylist&y=2005 David Bordow http://createdigitalmusic.com/full-archives/ (Look through entries from 2008) Emily Graber http://www.nime.org/archive/?mode=ylist&y=2010 Gina Collecchia http://www.nime.org/archive/?mode=ylist&y=2009 Kunal Datta "http://createdigitalmusic.com/full-archives/ (Look through entries from 2007) Matt Duhamel "http://createdigitalmusic.com/full-archives/ (Look through entries from 2006) Kevin McElroy http://nime2013.kaist.ac.kr/program/schedule/ Michael Mendoza http://www.nime.org/archive/?mode=ylist&y=2001 Robert Shin http://www.nime.org/archive/?mode=ylist&y=2002 Sophia Westwood http://www.nime.org/archive/?mode=ylist&y=2003 Brie Bunge http://www.nime.org/archive/?mode=ylist&y=2004

PART 2: Universal Principles of Design by Lidwell, Holden and Butler

1 - Each short chapter will be assigned to 2 people. Those 2 people should be able to give a brief summary of the article for class on Monday.

2 - Draw 1 example of an object/invention that you have seen that uses the principle that you were asked to read about. Each drawing should by o 8.5 x 11" paper.