HueCanvas
HueCanvas is an iPad application that enables users to control their lighting environments with the Philips Hue smart lighting system. This is achieved through an intuitive, gesture-based UI that is malleable and space oriented.
HueCanvas is an iPad application that enables users to control their lighting environments with the Philips Hue smart lighting system. This is achieved through an intuitive, gesture-based UI that is malleable and space oriented.
With the proliferation of mobile devices and internet-connected appliances (the “Internet of Things”, or IoT), people are increasingly able to interact with and effect changes in their physical environments in new and interesting ways. Because of the ubiquity and outsize role of lighting in people’s everyday lives, smart lighting control was an obvious early entrant into the IoT space, with Philips introducing their Hue lighting system in October 2012. With each Hue bulb capable of producing any of 16 million colors, the Hue system promised users unprecedented control over their lighting environments.
While the lighting products themselves are extremely capable, the software implementations to control them have been lacking. To-date, the majority of Hue apps rely on a list-based interface to control lights, with many actions and parameter settings nested deep within menus. This results in a tedious and frustrating user experience.
HueCanvas solves all of these problems by moving away from menus and allowing you to map & manipulate lights based on the way your lights are physically laid out in your actual home.
