Author Archives: Chloe Fan

Updates + new design very soon

By Chloe Fan | Published: October 11, 2009
Wow, I can’t believe it’s been almost half a year since I last updated! So much to catch up on. Summer: I worked with Orit Shaer on a Microsoft Surface project. Along with Catherine Grevet, Sarah Elfenbein, and Megan Strait, we created G-Nome Surfer, a genome browser for biology researchers. We interviewed many biologists and [...]
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The end is near!

By Chloe Fan | Published: April 16, 2009
Yikes! It’s been a while since I updated. After spring break, I wrapped up WiiPaint development, attended CHI 2009 (that’s another blog post right there :)), and now I’m working on a poster, a presentation, and the thesis write-up. WiiPaint right now includes support for up to 3 people with dynamic music that changes depending [...]
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Changing affordances

By Chloe Fan | Published: March 14, 2009
The Cirque two weeks ago provided an opportunity to observe users while they interacted with WiiPaint. The two things that stuck out most were: - Most users asked if the buttons had a function - Point and click gestures were still the most popular, unless I showed users how to move in WiiPaint It was [...]
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Post-Cirque update

By Chloe Fan | Published: March 1, 2009
Yesterday was the Cirque du CS during which I presented the lastest prototype of WiiPaint 2.  It looks drastically different from the lite bomomo version I posted a few weeks back.  I have some footage of WiiPaint 2 in action and hope to post it online within the next week. I was also interviewed for [...]
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Reactions to WiiPaint 2

By Chloe Fan | Published: February 8, 2009
Last Friday I had my first meeting with my thesis committee after coming back from Wintersession and presented the beginning of WiiPaint 2.  Currently, it looks like bomomo lite (see previous post) and is used with the Wiimote by pressing the B button. Here is a summary of the comments and suggestions. - Wiimote response [...]
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