Capabilities of DEMAIS


Introduction
Installation
Capabilities
Design Examples
Usage notes
DEMAIS provides a designer with a behavioral sandbox in which to quickly sketch alternative behavioral ideas, analogous to how a designer uses pencil and paper to sketch alternative visual layouts. DEMAIS enables a designer to rapidly explore, compare and communicate alternative behavioral design ideas using working examples as opposed to using static sketches, scribbled notes, and imagination. Specifically, DEMAIS enables a designer to:
  • Incrementally sketch and annotate a set of storyboards using a stylus and electronic canvas
  • Edit a storyboard sketch using gestures
  • Develop voice scripts and import images, audio, and video into a storyboard with a tap of the stylus
  • Sketch synchronization among the voice scripts, audio, video, and other sketched content
  • Sketch interactive and time-based behavior using ink strokes and textual annotations
  • Edit behavior using an expressive visual language
  • Operationalize the sketched behavior to obtain a working example

Our goal is to help a designer create a more innovative interactive multimedia application by enabling him to directly experience behavioral design ideas early in the design process.