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| Jamey Graham Distinguished Research Engineer California Research Center |
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If you do iTunes and/or YouTube you can be a part of a cool new experiment. Click the link to find more information on the project. - Abstract
For more than half a century, musicians used artwork as a way of visually describing the contents of an album. Cover art attracts attention, reminds the listener of the contents, and when printed on the album cover, provides a tangible representation of the music that’s easily used for organization and sharing. Over the past few decades, the benefits of the physical album “package” were lost as it changed from a 12” vinyl album to an electronic file and thumbnail image downloaded from an online music store. In this demonstration we present a tangible user interface called iCandy that restores the benefits of physical albums for the electronic music in the iTunes multimedia application and provides a method for easy access to recorded media. The system also includes several desktop visualizations that enhance the overall experience especially when dealing with large collections of music and video. - Information
- iCandy: A Tangible User Interface for iTunes, Jamey Graham and Jonathan Hull (PDF).
CHI 08 in the Interactivity section, April 7, 2008, Florence, Italy - Video (MP4)
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- Video Blog of iCandy demo (part 1) at CHI 08 by Mael Guillemot of Klewel (on Vimeo), shows tangible interface and printing cards from iTunes and YouTube.
- Video Blog of iCandy demo (part 2) at CHI 08 by Mael Guillemot of Klewel (on Vimeo), discussion about the technology (APIs, the album map and QRCodes).
- CHI08 Videos - on Truveo
