Brian Carter
BFA Industrial Design
The University of Kansas (2003)
Bachelor of Fine Arts - KU
Aura Thesis
The interface was prototyped and tested with Flash using key or mouse input to play recordings sampled at various speeds for real-time feedback of forward, reverse, stop, and play. Menu items such as navigation and Book Contents selection were also prototyped. But how could the physical model be paired with this software interface for testing? There are several methods. One common method is a 'Wizard of Oz' technique where the user presses a physical button while someone else activates what that button would do, but this doesn't grasp subtle input and response discrepancies. The method developed for the later stages of this project involved taking the common keyboard used with the Flash prototype - and changing the keys into buttons. Shown here is a keyboard modified to send special inputs to the Flash prototype.