IEE (2008)

I have been employed at the Victorian Partnership for Advanced Computing to help develop an engineering application called IEE. My main task has been to develop basic functionality for the application. I have also created graphics for presentations where suitable clipart was not available:

IEE: Modes of engagement.

IEE can be used with various devices, ranging from PDAs to head-mounted displays in a VR environment. This has made creating the user interface challenging. I explored user interaction scenarios using storyboards:

Storyboard fragment: Clip-plane creation.

Storyboard fragment: Curve creation.

Storyboard fragment: Object creation.

While developing implementation details in an illustrated notebook:

Workings for orientation script.

Development of measurement tool.

Development of transform tool.

I then created three tools and added infrastructure to support them. The tools allow the user to measure distances, select parts, and move selected parts around. Care has been taken to ensure consistency and ease of use across devices.

Toolbar icons.

Measuring a car antenna.

Selecting two wheels.

Moving the wheels.

Except for the car itself, all of the graphics above were created by me. The 2D artwork was made in Inkscape and the 3D tool widgets in Blender. The scripting was done using a combination of Virtools behaviours and VSL (on which IEE is based), C++, and IEE's own scripting interface.

Fragment of a tool's behaviour graph.