2010

Synergy is a system to collect information and collaborate. Its primary role is to allow groups of users who work on the same project (journalists, researchers, scientists) to collect and share resources which include documents, photographs, videos and audio recordings. The system is private. User have to be signed up by the system administrator. Any user can create a project and include others as collaborators. The material of each project can only be seen by the collaborators on that project. There are search options and a messaging system. The system provides distinct interfaces for use via computer or mobile phone. Synergy is implemented on top of wordpress.

Team: Maia Engeli, Weranga Kaluarachchi, Crystal Wang, Sowmya Shankar, Jaspreet Deol

2009

This system allows different little league teams to schedule their practice time as well games on their home ice. The interface provides a month by month view with the training days highlighted in red, games at home in yellow, games abroad in green, confirmed matches are brightly colored, non-confirmed ones have a light color. The ice mates home matches are displayed in black (confirmed) or gray (non-confirmed). There are 3 user groups: Kids and parents, team administrator, System manager.

Author: Maia Engeli

2009

This booking system for a car rental company was developed in Java using a Mysql database. The main functionalities include renting out cars, checking them back in, and managing the fleet. Different categories of cars are offered and extra equipment (child seat, bike racks) can be added. The company operates from a number of locations. The user interfaces were designed to give comprehensive guidance to the clerks.

Team: Maia Engeli, Humaira Tayyab, Michael Wang, Sowmya Shankar

2000-2005

This is series of workshops I taught starting in 2000 building upon a strategy of playful play with games for different learning effects. Games are first of all made for gameplay, however, modifying games can add an interesting creative aspect to it. Modifying a game or modding in short, lays somewhere between just playing a game and creating a new game from scratch. Modding includes the need to understand the essence game at hand and make conscious decisions about the way to alter it.

Collaborators: Nina Czegledy, QS Serafijn, Miriam Zehnder, Eric van der Mark, Patrick Sibenaler, and Silke Lang

2003

Different aspects of Augmented Reality were examined in this research project in a clearly defined studio situation from a design and room perception point of view. A fully functional prototype in which different scenarios can be shown was produced. The choreography is dependent on user interactions in the real world (position and direction) and focuses on the borderline between real and virtual worlds. The final artistic installation will be used for further research towards a design vocabulary for Augmented Reality, as an educational unit, as a showroom for exhibitions, and a tool to further business partnerships.

Team: Maia Engeli, Jan Torpus, Roderick Galantay University of Art and Design, Basel. Sponsor: Swiss National Science Foundation. Partners: I-art Basel, Museum of Communication Bern, ETH Zurich.

2003

currently offline

With outside-inside-out we replaced the traditional multimedia course at the Architecture Department at TU Delft, Netherlands. The aim was to create a '3D-Multimedia' course. We worked with the modeling software MAYA, a 3D printer und the game software Unreal Tournament and its editor UnrealEd.

2001

The motivation for this book comes from the wealth of projects that have been realized at the Chair for Architecture and CAAD at the ETH Zurich. Gerhard Schmitt was the head for 10 years from 1988 until 1998, when he became Vice-President of the ETH Zurich and turned the direction of the chair over to me. Our projects are visual and dynamic in nature. I decided that we should present the most relevant ones in a book where images could tell the main story and an accompanying CD would reveal their dynamic aspects. The book consists of three parts: the BOOK, the MAP, and the CD. The underlying design principle for all parts is the FLOW.

Authors: Gerhard Schmitt, Tom Sperlich, Rudi Stouffs, Fernando Burgos, Fabio Gramazio, Mikako Harada, Urs Hirschberg, Kerstin Hoeger, David Kurmann, Eric van der Mark, Kuk Hwan Mieusset, Michele Milano, Malgorzata Miskiewicz-Bugajski, Maria Papanikolaou, Marcin Paszkowski, Patrick Sibenaler, Benjamin Staeger, Kai Strehlke and Andrew Vande Moere, Arjan Dingste, Sigrun Gudjonsdottir, Alexandra Hoh, Bettina Klinge, Martin Meier, Mark Rosa, and Miriam Zehnder

2001

2 MiniCDs - "Vision and 14 Pioneer Projects" and "Visions and Realities" - with gamelike interfaces to inform about the ongoing ETH World projects.

Collaborators: Marcel Schneeberger, L'Altro visual graphic arts, Cyril Brunner and Jakob Schiratzki, Steffen Lemmerzahl, Ida Schmieder, streamix Lukas Gysling, Eric van der Mark, Anders Hagström and Barbara Meili, Andrea Ventura and Alexandra Papadopoulos, Michael O'Dell

2001

The goal of [roomz] was to teach students how to reveal architectonic ideas with the computer by creating narrative scenarios in a three-dimensional environment. Architectonic messages about space were formulated and then linked together into one interconnected, dynamically-changing hyperstructure, which led to the recognition that the stories themselves actually create the architecture

Team: Maia Engeli, Kai Strehlke, Fernando Burgos, Patrick Sibenaler, Maria Papanikolaou, Cristina Besomi, Fabio Gramazio, Steffen Lemmerzahl, Miriam Zehnder, Andrew Vande Moere, Mark Rosa

2000

In a virtual reality environment we designed digital art installations to experiment with the new possibilities of virtual architectural space. They were exhibited inside various pre-defined rooms that functioned as dynamic containers exploring various novel concepts of virtual reality as well as the real-time, interactive community life of the exhibition environment itself.

Team: Maia Engeli, Andrew Vande Moere

2000

The open, two-stage-international competition was chosen as an effective instrument for arriving at a framework for the coordinated future development of ETH World in view of the rapidly developing possibilities and standards. Proposing this competition to an international field of participants was a natural consequence of the global aim of the ETH World vision. The goal was to obtain ideas and concepts for the master plan of ETH World, to sharpen understanding of the new challenges, and to find a broadly supported strategy. The collection of submissions opens a wide field of suggestions from which much can be learned. Elaborate ideas, when they are submitted to a competition, offer the possibility to compare and evaluate, and to reason about the goals of ETH World and how they could be achieved, based on proposals from a large number of expert teams.
The book is structured in three parts: It starts with a text section containing an introduction by Prof. Kurt Forster, Professor of the History of Art and Architecture at the ETH Zurich until 1999, Director of the Centre Canadien d'Architecture, Montreal, and president of the ETH World Jury. It is followed by thoughts from Prof. Gerhard Schmitt, Vice-President for Planning and Logistics at the ETH Zurich, initiator of ETH World, and member of the jury. The summary of the competition launch and process has been compiled from documents created by the organizers and the jury. In part two, the prize winners are presented, as well as additional submissions for the second phase of the competition. These are followed in part three by the submissions for the first phase.

Editors: Maia Engeli, Phillipe Carrard. Authors: Kurt Forster, Gerhard Schmitt, Maia Engeli, Walter Schaufelberger

2000

Dreamscape is an introductory information technology course where students collectively design a visual landscape with links to information in a web-based environment. The themes of system, communication, information, and information architecture are explored in depth through lectures, exercises and the building of the landscape, thereby helping students understand the potential of IT and envision further developments.

Team: Maia Engeli, Malgorzata Miskiewicz-Bugajski, Mark Rosa, André Müller, Andreas Weder, Patrick Sibenaler, Fabio Gramazio, Maria Papanikolaou, Andrew Vande Moere, Cristina Besomi