ï~~5. SUMMARY AND FUTURE WORK
We have demonstrated an application and toolkit designed
to facilitate the rapid creation of graphical interfaces for
music and media applications. Motivated by the absence of
a complete system for interactively prototyping expressive
software interfaces, Argos stands as an application and
toolkit that leverages the multi-touch interaction paradigm
to empower musical users and developers.
In the future we plan to integrate ability to bind
physical controls & fiducials to the surface of Argos
tabletop-based interfaces using a method similar to the one
presented by Fiebrink et. al. in [2].
In addition to continuing code-level optimizations, we
plan to conduct extensive usability and accessibility tests
beyond our preliminary evaluations, especially in the
musical pedagogy and interface design domains. Work to
extend the widget library with physics-based controls,
menus, and other experimental controls is ongoing. Based
on previous evaluation, two-way OSC communication is
currently being implemented.
A stable pre-release version of Argos is available as
C++ source and compiled binary on a Google Code SVN
located at http://code.google.com/p/ofxargos/
6. ACKNOWLEGEMENTS
This application was originally a product of the 2009
Google Summer of Code program. Many thanks to Seth
Sandler for his helpful comments & ideas about multitouch interaction design.
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