Best and exemplary HCI projects of the academic year 2015/2016: our project was selected by the professor as one of the three best HCI projects of the academic year 2015/2016 and is preserved as an exemplary project in the professor's project archive.
Link (in Italian): https://www.unica.it/unica/page/it/luciod_spano_mat_archivio_progetti
HandSketch is a prototype of application intended as an experiment of Human-Computer interaction. The idea behind it is to develop a set of toolbars for a raster drawing application which rely only on gestual interaction to switch drawing instruments and their settings, allowing the mouse cursor to not leave the canvas during drawing. The gestual input is provided through a Leap Motion sensor.
The program provides very basic drawing instuments on a raster canvas. It has a side toolbar whose widgets provide the selection of the active drawing tool, the color and the tool options. Each widget is activated and controlled through a proper rotation gesture, and the numeric value of the settings is controlled with a circle gesture.
Just make the application, running on the command line (requires make and awk):
makeand then open the resulting file HandSketch.html in your web browser.
HandSketch
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+--LICENSE
+--README.md
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+--lib
| +--jquery
| +--jquery.min.js
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| +--bootstrap
| +--*bootstrap libraries*
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| +--bootstrap-plugins
| +--*plugin_name*
| +--css
| +--js
| +--*other libraries*
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+--html
| +--main.html
| +--*othen html files for page components*
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+--js
| +--*custom js scripts*
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+--css
| +--*custom css stylesheets*
All third party libraries should go inside the lib folder. Bootstrap plugins should go inside bootstrap-plugins. When downloading a plugin, it should have a dist folder that contains js and css subfolders. Check the folder structure of the plugin and put its dist folder under bootstrap-plugins, renaming it to plugin_name. If the plugin does not have a dist folder, take the relevant js and css files and create the needed structure.
HTML code is divided into different files inside the html folder, one file for each relevant component of the UI. The main page is in the html/main.html file. The other files are included inside it during the preprocessing (make). To include a component into the main page, place the code <!-- #include file_name.html --> inside the main.html file, in the appropriated position. To preprocess, run make: the HandSketch.html page will be compiled and put into the root folder of the project.
Custom JavaScript functions should go inside a file in the js folder. Keep grouped into a file with a consistent name the functions which are related to a specific html component.
Custom CSS stylesheet files should go into the css folder.
Comment your code in a way that everybody can understand what's happening or, if you find it more motivating, as if the person who ends up maintaining your code is a violent armed psychopath who knows where you live. Some team members actually are psychopaths and well armed, so you have been warned. Use JSDoc format when documenting functions. Also include a file comment at the beginning of JavaScript files, providing at least a brief and "@author" and "@date yyyy-mm-dd" tags.
The indentation is of 4 spaces (convert tab to spaces in your code). Anyone leaving tabs in the code will be LARTed without mercy.
The maximum length for code lines is peremptorily of 80 characters for JavaScript and CSS files. But HTML sucks, so the limit is not applied to HTML files, just try to keep a reasonable line length there.
- Fork the repo here on github
- Clone your repo with
git clone *repo_address* - cd to the project folder and make a new branch with
git checkout -b *feature-branch-name* - Work on the feature
- When ready send your code with
git push -u origin *feature-branch-name* - Send a pull request
| Library | Authors or maintainers | License | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| jQuery | jQuery Foundation | jQuery | https://jquery.com/ |
| jQuery UI | jQuery Foundation | jQuery | https://jqueryui.com/ |
| bootstrap | Mark Otto, Jacob Thornton, core team | MIT | http://getbootstrap.com/ |
| bootstrap submenu | Vasily A. | MIT | https://github.com/vsn4ik/bootstrap-submenu |
| bootstrap slider | Kyle J. Kemp | MIT | https://github.com/seiyria/bootstrap-slider |
| jQueryUI.Ruler | Emanuel Fernandes | MIT | https://github.com/efernandesng/jquery-ui.ruler |
| LeapJS | Leap Motion, Inc | Apache 2.0 | https://github.com/leapmotion/leapjs |
| Google Fonts | Google, Inc | SIL OFL 1.1 | https://github.com/google/fonts |
The project is licensed under GPL 3. See LICENSE file for the full license.