Student project of THI and San José State University (SJSU) , USA

For the fourth year in a row, an international student project for students from THI and San José State University (SJSU) in California is being organised to work on a task set by the HMI group at the Stanford Research Institute (SRI).

This year's project involves the conception and implementation of a user interface design and simulation framework that will enable UI designers to switch seamlessly between designing and testing user interfaces. Flexibly parameterisable HMI elements are to be dragged and dropped from a library onto a web-based canvas for a specific UI design and linked to data streams provided by a correspondingly instantiated data simulation engine. To demonstrate the project work, the project team will design an application scenario that illustrates the implemented solutions.

To kick off the project, a group of two computer science and two UXD students from THI travelled to California with Prof. Tiedemann for a week this year to get to know the project participants from SJSU and to start brainstorming for the project work together during a visit to SRI in Menlo Park.

The group will work together online over the summer semester and present the results around Whitsun as part of a final project week, during which the SJSU students will then travel to THI for a return visit.