Description

ZUIS (Zoomable UI on Mobile Devices with Sensor Input) was my bachelor's thesis project at Bilkent University. Although it was mainly a Human Computer Interaction / Software Engineering project which included almost no graphic design at all, it required extensive research on different HCI paradigms such as zoomable interfaces, gesture based interaction and mobile interfaces.

In this project, two custom UI components were designed and implemented which were the Fish eye menu and the Sliding Panels. These UI components were solely controlled by mobile gestures such as tilting and shaking the phone. These gestures were detected by analyzing the sensor data which were acquired from the accelerometer embedded in the Nokia N95 phone. The final concepts were demonstrated by implementing a photo gallery application for the Nokia S60 platform.

Role

This thesis project was carried out by a team of 4 people. I designed and developed the UI concepts (the fish eye and the sliding panel components) except the sensor data analysis.

Team

Onur Kurt, Oğuz Emre Özcan, Türker Öztürk, Hamdi Öztürk.

Timeline

October 2009 - May 2009

Methods
  • Scenarios and Use Cases
  • Requirements Analysis
  • UI Storyboards
  • Paper Prototypes
  • Activity Diagrams
  • Architecture and Package Diagrams
  • Domain Model Diagrams
  • UML Class Diagrams
Tools
  • Symbian OS 9.2
  • S60 Software Platform
  • Symbian C++
  • Carbide.c++ IDE