miniStudio: Designers' Tool for Prototyping Ubicomp Space with Interactive Miniature
summary
miniStudio is a Photoshop plug-in that generates paper and Lego miniatures, projects dynamic images onto them with a camera–projector system using hidden IR markers, and maps interactions to five spatial relations (location, distance, motion, orientation, custom). The pipeline uses Processing and NyAR, exports named Photoshop layer groups as event states, and supports frame animation. A user study with 12 designers yields nine interactive bus-shelter prototypes after a 30-minute tutorial plus one hour of design, showing rapid, low-cost prototyping of multi-component ubicomp spaces.
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chapters (6)
- 0:00Introduction to miniStudio
- 3:21Toolkit overview and features
- 7:05Prototyping workflow steps
- 9:28User study and findings
- 14:35Conclusion and future work
- 15:18Q&A session
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