About

This project is focused on creating design explorations of smartphones as basis for DIY alternative controllers. It involves the use of different tools for app development, as well as experiments with the play affordances of smartphone sensing and materials. This page provides access to design logs, documentation, prototypes and some reflections on this process.

Created by Enric Llagostera, for an independent study project (Winter 2019) under the supervision of Rilla Khaled.

Shellphone concept sketches

Example of one of the experiment ideas, the Shellphone.

Logs

Apr 11, 2019
2019-04-11 After playtesting and starting unistroke recognition
Apr 5, 2019
2019-04-05 Gesture recognitions issues and in-device tests
Apr 3, 2019
2019-04-03 Rewriting the story
Mar 28, 2019
2019-03-28 A mistake and a story
Mar 27, 2019
2019-03-27 Starting prototype 2
Feb 28, 2019
2019-02-28 Experiments with OSC, magnets and gesture recognition
Feb 23, 2019
2019-02-23 Finishing touches on Shellphone (for now)
Feb 7, 2019
2019-02-07 work session
Feb 2, 2019
Events and communication in an idle game
Jan 31, 2019
Shellphone 0.2
Jan 30, 2019
HCI Readings on movement-based game design and smartphones
Jan 25, 2019
Testing mobile browsers and JS libraries
Jan 17, 2019
Ideas for experiments
Jan 16, 2019
Testing App Inventor