Prototype Photos
Prototype A
Prototype B
We used a small notebook as a physical prop to represent an android phone.
We taped paper version of the phone to it and we were swapping small sheets of paper. Here, the home screen is shown.
If a user selects any of the channels, the screen slides left and one the four screens comes in its place (depending on which channel they selected)
In the new screen, the user sees thumbnail plots of the channel's components on the left and some statistics about the components (mean, variance, last value).
From the main screen the users also have the ability to click on the "Custom Plot" button which again will slide left the screen and let them create the custom plot. They can set the name of the custom plot (which is automatically hinted unless they change it) to something they want and they can select components from different channels. Each component would appear with its own color and connector line, and these will be shown immediately in the plot.
Another feature we decided to add was the ability to publish messages on a channel. Whenever they have opened a specific channel, they can tap the publish button next to the channel name and again a sliding animation will present them with a new screen on the right.
In it, the specific channel on which they want to publish is shown and they can use a starting template (since sometimes the values in a channel may look like arbitrary real numbers from a human perspective). There are two types of starting templates ( the last on the channel and the last one the user published) for two types of uses. The values are setup via text fields using the on-screen keyboard.
TODO upload photos to the wiki
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