ÿþ<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><head><TITLE>Phidget Gallery - Appointment Assistant</TITLE> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=unicode"> <LINK href="grouplab-software.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"> </head> <BODY> <H1> <a href="http://www.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/grouplab/phidgets/"> <img border="0" src="logo.jpg" align="bottom" width="192" height="84"></a> Appointment Assistant</H1> <br> <p class="indented"> <IMG style="WIDTH: 638px; HEIGHT: 260px" height=319 src="AppointmentAssistant.jpg" width=480 border=0 ></p> <p class="indented"><b> Appointment Assistant</b> is an appointment reminder display that interacts with the users outlook calendar to remind them of upcoming appointments.&nbsp; As an appointment approaches the man&nbsp;moves along the scale and the LEDs, which range in colour&nbsp;from green to red, light up to further indicate the time remaining before the next appointment. </p> <p class="indented">&nbsp;</p> <p class="indented">At its heart is a servo motor which rotates the man along the scale and 8 LEDs which light up correspondingly. In addition a touch sensor was used for the dismiss button.</p> <p class="indented"> <a href="AppointmentAssistant.wmv"> <img border="0" src="file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/Saul%20Greenberg/My%20Documents/My%20Videos/phidgets2002Fall/WebSite/camera.gif" width="48" height="45" id=IMG1><i>see the video</i></a></p> <h3>The Creator</h3> <p class="indented"><b> Zaid Alibhai</b>&nbsp;created this for his short assignment as part of a senior-level human computer interaction class at the University of Calgary. </p> <p class="indented">&nbsp;</p> <p class="indented">Created in November, 2002</p> <p class="x-small"><b>Next exhibit: <a href="BlackMagicPuppetry.html">Black Magic Puppetry</a></b></p></BODY></HTML>