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Going from a point and click desktop interface to a mobile touch interface dramatically effects how consumers interact with applications and web sites. Much has been written recently about Apple’s human interface guidelines but what do Google, HP, BlackBerry and Microsoft have to say about designing for their mobile operating systems? In this presentation you will be introduced to the world of human interface guidelines for mobile devices. What can we learn by comparing and contrasting the guidelines of these three mobile players and how can we incorporate it into our apps and websites? What are the main differences in developing for these platforms and what do user experience designers need to take into account before starting a project? Should you focus on building an app or make your website mobile friendly instead? We had a great time on Wednesday night having pizza and hanging out with the professors! It was a pretty self-explanatory meeting, but here’s basically what happened: the department provided pizza, soda, and chips, a lot of people and a lot of professors showed up, and we ate pizza with the professors. There was also goat cheese provided by Dr. Volkert. You are invited to the Pizza with the Professors night on Wednesday, October 26, 2011 at 7 PM in the Math Library. Please let Sue Peti in the CS Office know whether or not you’ll be able to come have pizza with us. I hope that you can attend. Cheers, Today, Nicholas Tietz and Jimmy Baiera explained the benefits and drawbacks of functional programming, provide a brief introduction to Haskell, and provide examples of solving problems in both C++ and Haskell to highlight the differences between “traditional” programming and functional programming. If you want to try Haskell in your browser, without installing: http://tryhaskell.
This weeks meeting was a Presentation (PDF) on the repository system GIT by Nicholas Tietz. Git is a free & open source, distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency. Every Git clone is a full-fledged repository with complete history and full revision tracking capabilities, not dependent on network access or a central server. Branching and merging are fast and easy to do. Last nights meeting had a great turnout as we introduced our plans for a Gaming SIG. To begin the night we had a presentation by Dr. Ruttan on Reinventing Education (PDF) by using virtual worlds as a new interactive place for students to come and learn. Currently, there are faculty at Kent State in the departments of Computer Science, Theatre, and Education working with the Unity engine to create such an environment. As a result of this talk, there was a spark in debate about whether this was a good solution to education or if it would ultimately hinder human interaction skills. Following Dr. Ruttan’s talk, Mike Romeo shared his experience with the gaming industry and gave startup tutorials with the Unity and CryEngine 3 game engines. Game Engines With this project we are looking at combining with the Kent State Imagineer group. If you are interested in attending their meetings they are on Thursdays in Room 302 of Van Dusen at 2pm. The meetings usually last around 15 minutes.
On Wednesday, September 21, 2011 at 7 PM, we will be hosting speaker Casey Stella in room 228, MSB. He will be giving a talk titled “Better News Through Data Science,” where he will investigate how machine learning and statistics can assist in classifying political bias in news. Along the way, he will lay bare what data science can do well and where it can fall down. Casey Stella is a senior software engineer at a medical data mining start-up in Cleveland. He has a passion for math, computer science, and cheese whiz. His talk will be recorded and will be available on this site afterwards. Check back for updates! We had another great meeting with really good turnout. I’m waiting on our Records Officer, Tim Fox, to get the official count to me, but it looked like around 30 people were at our TED Talk Night. The meeting started with general business, then we watched some TED talks, which are viewable at http://www.ted.com/. We watched talks about topics ranging from creating virtual whiteboards using Wii remotes to effective visualization of medical data, and halfway through, we had pizza and soda for refreshments. At about 9 PM, we concluded the meeting. |
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