In this paper, we describe the design issues and technical implementation of an interactive Family Message Board. The Family Message Board enables members of a distributed family to communicate with one another both synchronously and asynchronously via simple, pen-based, digital notes. Each household running this Java-based software can view, create, and manipulate notes in a zoomable space. Th...

In this interactive demonstration we show the usage of a remote reconfigurable logic laboratory for digital design students, presented in a full paper submitted to the conference. A very simple web based approach is used to enable the remote access to a FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) development and educational board. The board switches and keys are virtualised with an online web form, an...

Japanese tatami mats are often arranged so that no four mats meet. This local restriction imposes a rich combinatorial structure when applied to monomino-domino coverings of rectilinear grids. We describe a modular, mechanical game board, prototyped with a desktop 3D printer, that enforces this restriction, and transforms tatami pen-andpaper puzzles into interactive sculptures. We review some r...

This paper presents the Interactive Storyteller, a multi-user interface for AI-based interactive storytelling, where stories emerge from the interaction of human players with intelligent characters in a simulated story world. To support face-to-face contact and social interaction, we position users around a shared multi-touch table, which very much resembles the social setting of traditional ta...

A Shannon C-type strategy program, VICTOR, is written for Connect-Four, based on nine strategic rules. Each of these rules is proven to be correct, implying that conclusions made by VICTOR are correct. Using VICTOR, strategic rules where found which can be used by Black to at least draw the game, on each 7 × (2n) board, provided that White does not start at the middle column, as well as on any ...

This case study describes Project FORESEE, a tutoring system utilizing a computer-based network under development at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, North Carolina. The project is a collaboration among university faculty and students in the Colleges of Engineering and Education and Psychology, teachers, administrators, students and parents in a public school system, and a cadre of v...