Author Archives: Chloe Fan

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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Bomomo lite

By Chloe Fan | Published: January 21, 2009
I’ve taken the Javascript file for bomomo.com and coded it into Actionscript 3.0 using FlashDevelop 3. The original bomomo had 20 different styles; this one only has one. I’ve also cleaned up the code and reduced it by about half so that it is a lightweight Flash application. You can check out the demo below [...]
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How many ways can you use Google Earth?

By Chloe Fan | Published: January 17, 2009
What can Google Earth tell us about interface navigation design? Today, I’ve covered several basic navigational methods within Google Earth. It is a free software that allows you explore the earth and view satellite images, maps, terrain, etc of just about anywhere in the world.  Google Earth is available for PC/Mac and iPhone/iPod Touch. I [...]
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Twitter Wordle

By Chloe Fan | Published: January 14, 2009
I came across Ankit Ahuja’s blog today and saw his Twitter Wordle blog post. For those of you who don’t know, Wordle is a simple online application that lets you create word clouds from text files or websites, emphasizing words that are used more often. I wanted to make my own but couldn’t find the [...]
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Wintersession update

By Chloe Fan | Published: January 12, 2009
Here are a few things I’ve done for my thesis project so far this Wintersession: - Test a GlovePIE script to control Google Earth with a Wiimote. - Research other ways of using Google Earth with the Wiimote. Google at Macworld had a program that allowed you to “surf” in Google Earth using a Wii [...]
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