Course Description
This course is a broad graduate-level introduction to Emerging Technologies. We teach the theory, design procedure, and programming practices behind effective advanced human interaction with computers. The course begins with seminal work on interactive systems, and moves through current and future research areas in interaction techniques and the design, prototyping, and evaluation of natural user interfaces. The course will cover the topics of multimodal, tangible, and natural user interfaces with special emphasis on the need of informed design and evaluation.
Module Overview
- Module 1: Motivation & Emerging Technologies
- Module 2: Prototyping & Design Evaluation
- Module 3: Implementation Evaluation
- Module 4: Data Evaluation
- Module 5: Human Performance Models & WPF
- Module 6: Natural User Interfaces
- Module 7: Input Devices and Sensing Technologies
- Module 8: Presentation of Projects & Results
Classes and Seminars:
- Thursdays, 5:00pm - 7:30pm
- Fridays, 8:00am - 10:30am
Appointments:
- 28.02/29.02 Module 1
- 06.03/07.03 Module 2
- 27.03/28.03 Module 3
- 03.04/04.04 Module 4
- 17.04/18.04 Module 5
- 08.05/09.05 Module 6
- 15.05/16.05 (Module 6)
- 22.05/23.05 Module 7
- 29.05/30.05 Module 8
Assignments
- HW assignment 1 (Module 2) is due 03.04.08
- HW assignment 2 (Module 5) is due 08.05.08
- HW assignment 3 (Module 7) is due 29.05.08
Examination:
- Two exercises (HW1-HW2) and one (small) project (HW3), which will be developed by the students (in pairs), demonstrating the progress through the semester [30%]
- Oral presentation which describes the project to the rest of the class, and which explains the difficult problems which were overcome [30%]
- Final exam (oral) [40%]
