Tag: internet

evaluation
Making the Game, recent

Making The Game – Teil 17: Evaluation und Einsatz der Anwendung

The aim of this work has been to develop an edutainment application for natural user interfaces that can be used in the classroom and at home. They should encourage children and young people on a funy way to test their newly acquired knowledge. Care was taken that the game motivates learners by appealing animations, cut scenes and mini-games.   Since it is important in the learning process that the learner feels comfortable, the actual knowledge query was packed in a trivia game. Thus, the player does not notice that he just answered questions that could be used ​​just as well in an exam.   General Due to time constraints, unfortunately, […]

vergleich
Making the Game, recent

Making The Game – Teil 8: Vergleich von NUI GUI

In the comments of some articles on natural user interfaces you can read that NUIs are just graphical user interfaces without any differences. For a some simple definitions of a GUI, like the one from Wikipedia: “A graphical user interface is a software component that allows the users of a computer to interact with the machine via graphical icons.” this might apply, because visual interfaces are graphic in nature.     As a graphical interface, however, constitutes more than pictorial symbols, a more IT-specific definition is needed: “A Graphical User Interface (GUI) refers to the graphical user interface, which make the use of computer easier …. Graphical User Interfaces are […]

gmusic
Lab, recent

Google Music – Erfahrungsbericht

Today I finally got to test Google Music. After 6 months of beta testing the service now opened to all users. Though you have to be in the U.S. to register an account, but thanks to proxies and VPN connections it easy to “be” in the U.S. at least with the internet-connection. If you have no idea how Proxies work, you can find a good guide at engadget.com. (Note: you only need the American IP during registration!)   Typical cloud application, you can listen to your uploaded music collection (max 20,000 files) from any computer, tablet, mobile phones and other Internet-enabled device. But an Internet connection is required for this […]

clickjacking
Lab, recent

Clickjacking – Wie ich dich dazu brachte meine Seite auf Facebook zu „liken“

Wenn du diesen Artikel direkt nach dem Betrachten meiner „Startseite“ siehst wurdest du soeben ge-Clickjacked. Nun keine Sorge, auch wenn es sich schlimm anhören mag ist eben nichts schlimmes passiert. Aber gehen wir die Sache einmal langsam an. Was ist Clickjacking? Clickjacking ist eine Technik bei der ein „Angreifer“ (in diesem Falle ich) die Darstellung einer Webseite so bearbeitet dass der normale Nutzer einen vermeindlich harmlosen Mausklick durchführt, dabei jedoch im Hintergrund eine andere, oft unerwünschte Funktion ausführt. Dies wird dadurch bewerkstelligt indem dargestellte Objekte überlagert oder ausgeblendet werden. Tatsächlich wird jedoch genau dieses versteckte Objekt / die versteckte Funktion durch den Benutzer ausgelöst. Während der Benutzer nun denkt er […]