Posts Tagged ‘Rick Barraza’
December 22nd, 2008
I’ve signed up for MIX 09, so I’ll be headed to Las Vegas this March. If you’re thinking about it, they’re having a pretty solid promotional where you can register for 40% off the standard cost with the RSVP code “MIXspecial1″.
Go do it
Interesting stuff happening at MIX this year…
Johnny Lee, whose idea of using the Wiimote for multi-point interaction I shamelessly ripped off, will be giving a session on Interaction Techniques Using the Wii Remote (and Other HCI Projects). I’m curious to see if this gives us anything more than what we’ve seen in his previous videos.
Robby Ingebretsen is running the Design Fundamentals for Developers workshop. Robby has a great design sense and his talks are always entertaining. On the other side of that, there is the Cynergy workshop with Rick Barraza, Michael Wolf and Jose Fajerdo on Developing for Experience with 3 Heads. It would be a tough task to find a better design/development team and I look forward to their workshop.
Anyway… have a great holiday. I’m probably going to be offline for a while…
January 28th, 2008
OK, so I’ve taken note of multi-point WPF a couple times now (both times were in regards to Rick Barraza’s Cynergy demo) and I started noticing that people are really interested in this. So I decided to take some time to create a couple tutorials on creating multi-point interfaces in WPF.
A point of note: I am not a programmer. I am a designer. This means that whatever code I post will probably be a mess. But it also means that if I can make something work in WPF, anyone can.
The first question we need to address is how to pull multi-point interaction data into your system. You could, of course, buy one of these. I don’t have that kind of money, so I decided to try my hand at the poor man’s multi-point: the ever useful Wiimote controller for the Nintendo Wii.
In this post, we’ll go over how exactly to connect your Wii controller to your computer via Bluetooth. (I’m using Vista. Could be different for XP, but I haven’t tried.)
First, open up your Control Panel and double click on “Bluetooth Devices”
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January 23rd, 2008
Last time I was at Microsoft, I spoke briefly (for about 2 hours) with Rick Barraza about the need to get designers into the WPF space and how des/devs (designer developers) can really push forward a technology like WPF. In fact, it was Rick who inspired me to do more work on this blog as a way of trying to help designers get more comfortable with WPF.
Now Rick has a post on his brilliant multi-touch WPF interface using a Wiimote.
Rick, if you’re reading this… how the heck do you have the time to do stuff like that?!? I’m envious… really, really envious.
Excellent work.
