Arkiv for februar 2009

Nokia Sports Tracker

torsdag, 19. februar 2009

This widget should be able to show my running activities, but as I am to hand in my master thesis in about 10 days, geuss for how long time I will not have time to run… too bad. Stay tuned.

Nokia Nseries Widget

My latest health activities

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The inevitable has come to pass

mandag, 2. februar 2009

It had to happen sooner or later, today was the day. My girl friend operated the new machinery, which was a gift from my parrents at Christmas.

The two pictures differentiate by half an hour and 8 centimeters

The two pictures differentiate by half an hour and 8 centimeters

Couchsurfing.com

mandag, 2. februar 2009

Nu er vi også blevet en del af det store sofa-surfe-netværk. Vi har oprettet en profil, i håb om måske at finde et par steder vi kan bo undervejs på vores rejse.

Det er sådan, at på ens profil kan man se anbefalinger fra dem, som man har haft boende eller boet hos, så vi besluttede at vi hellere måtte være gæstfri, så vi selv har en større chance for at finde husly når vi skal af sted.

Vi har lige haft to italienere boende i to nætter. Det var en rigtig positiv oplevelse. De var rigtig søde og kunne snakke godt engelsk. Drengen har studeret i Aalborg og nu var kæresten kommet op for at de sammen kunne tage på rundtur i Skandinavien. Vi havde inviteret dem på middag søndag, og så sad vi bare og snakkede resten af aftenen inden de tog ud og kiggede på København by night. Mandag aften lavede de så mad til os – rigtig lækker pasta-ret med salat bagefter (i Italien spiser man mange retter, én af gangen), og så så vi billeder fra drengens spejderliv – jep endnu en spejder. Vi fik som “tak for husly” en nøgle fra Milano, som symboliser at døren står åben hos dem begge, hvis vi en dag kommer på de kanter. Det er dog tradition at man bor hos forældrene til man bliver 30, så det kan være vi skal vente nogle år :-)

Der er rigtig mange som gerne vil låne vores sofa, så mulighederne er store!

Det er et stort skridt at have nogle totalt fremmede mennesker til at bo i sin lejlighed, men det gik over alle forventninger, så vi er parate til at åbne dørene for lidt flere og selv tage brug af den smarte webservice når vi selv er på farten.

Save the Future! Interactive learning game for kids

søndag, 1. februar 2009

The “Save the Future” game was developed for the Technical Museum of Denmark as a tool for engaging the visiting kids in the exhibitions. The game is closely tied together with the physical context the user is moving around in. The game consists of a PDA running the game software, which is wirelessly communicating with the other PDAs as well as interactive parts of the exhibition. The participants work in groups based on the competencies of each participant, making sure that nobody will be able to “free-wheel” through the game.

The whole exhibition was redesigned as well as interactive characters were developed (e.g. an evil professor). The game requires the users to solve mysteries and thereby analyse different bits and pieces of information. The tasks are designed to engage all the participants, and it is therefore not possible to solve the game without cooperating as a group.

The game was refined through several iterations which included a lot of lo- and hi-fi prototyping as well as user evaluations. The picture shows the splash screen from the software proto.

The (quite ugly) splash screen from the game

Save the Future Flsh demo

The project was done at DTU in the fall 2006, the team consisting of Krestine Mougaard, Søren Knudsen, Mikkel Proschowsky & Tobias Toft.

Source (text and image): tobiastoft.dk