credits Students: Jan Barth (jancouver), Roman Stefan Grasy (roman_g), Mark Lukas, Markus Lorenz Schilling (dl-110) Academics: Prof. Hartmut Bohnacker, Prof. Ralf Dringenberg

Interaction designers develop our digital everyday life. They concept, sketch and create new possibilities of interaction, which are evaluated with functional and technical prototypes.

The book “Prototyping Interfaces – Interactive Sketches with VVVV” covers within 280 pages the applied handling of interactive sketches with the visual programming language VVVV.

It is divided into two main chapters, a theoretical and a practical part. The theoretical part concerns the definition and the meaning of the term “prototype” in the designprocess.

The practical part of the book branches the basics of the visual programming language VVVV and how to control different electronic components with Arduino and VVVV. Beginning from the use of different sensors and actuators to modern tracking technologies like the xBox Kinect, different examples are explained within a wide range of tutorials.

Additional to the book a website is launched within the user finds the patches for every single example described in the book. Also the website provides technical support and a playground which can be used to upload and share private projects.

“Prototyping Interfaces - Interactive Sketches wit VVVV” is addressed to designstudents, interaction designers and media artists.

The project is the Bachelor Thesis of
Jan Barth (jancouver)
Roman Stefan Grasy (roman_g)
Mark Lukas
Markus Lorenz Schilling (dl-110)

It was developed during the winter term 2011/2012 at the University of Applied Sciences Schwäbisch Gmünd.

We would like to say thanks to:
Prof. Hartmut Bohnacker
Prof. Ralf Dringenberg
Joreg Dießl
Elias Holzer
Julia Laub
Andreas Brendle
Sabrina Hauser
Alex Beim
Götz Wintergerst
Ron Jagozinski
Jussi Ängeslevä
Prof. Steffen Süpple
Christian Engler
VVVV Community

If you have questions of any kind don´t hesitate to drop a line to hello@prototypinginterfaces.com or visit our websitehttp://www.prototypinginterfaces.com