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| Course
Schedule |
| 9/8 |
Course
Overview and Context of HCI (Ishii)\
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| 9/15 |
Design
Process and Introduction to Tangible Interfaces (Ishii)
Design
Exercise 1
Readings
for next week:
Buxton, Bill. Less is
More (More or Less): Uncommon Sense and the Design
of
Computers,
2001
Weiser,
Mark, “The Computer for the 21st Century,” Scientific
American, 1991, 265 (3), pp. 94-104.
Ishii,
H. and Ullmer, B., Tangible Bits: Towards Seamless
Interfaces between People, Bits and Atoms, in
Proceedings of Conference on Human Factors in
Computing Systems (CHI ‘97), (Atlanta,
March 1997), ACM Press, pp. 234-241.
Homework:
Read the Buxton, Ishii and Weiser articles. Write
a
page about one (or more, if you want) of the following
questions. Your answer
must
be shorter
than one page. Bring your response (hard
copy, with your name) to us next week and email us
a copy. Questions:
•
What do you think Buxton and Weiser would have
to say about Ishii’s and Ullmer’s
original vison of tangible
bits?
• What would these authors have to say about a PDA
(like a palm pilot) and a news
paper?
•
What is the swiss army knife of computerized
devices (hardware device)? What is the professional
chef’s
knife? Which do you prefer
and why?
• Compare an old-fashioned mechanical camera (e.g.
nikon or pentax SLR) with a
camera cell phone.
• What question does the reading inspire for you? Do
you have any answers to your own
question?
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| 9/22 |
Guest
lecture - Design Process & Invention - Steen Strand,
product designer
How do we invent? How do we see possibilities where no one else does? While
invention is often random and unexpected, there are techniques that can help
set the stage. Steen Strand will discuss one such technique that he used to
invent the Freebord, a snowboard cross-trainer. He'll also describe the
Freebord's evolution after its original conception.
Steen Strand is the inventor of the Freebord and the founder of Freebord
Manufacturing. His designs have appeared on numerous TV shows and in 100's
of publications including Time, Newsweek and Forbes. Steen previously
worked as an engineer at IDEO. He received his M.S. in Product Design from
Stanford and his B.A. in Economics, magna cum laude, from Harvard. Steen
serves as a visiting lecturer at Stanford and Yale.
Design
Exercise 2
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| 9/29 |
Lecture
- Context and Basics of TUI (Ishii)
Project
1 assigned |
| 10/6 |
Guest
Lecture - HCI - Prof Robert Jacob
Suggested
Readings (provided by Prof. Jacob)
R.J.K.
Jacob, "User
Interface," pp. 1821-1826 in Encyclopedia
of Computer Science, Fourth Edition,
ed. A. Ralston, E.D. Reilly, and D. Hemmendinger,
Nature Publishing
Group, London (2000).
http://www.cs.tufts.edu/~jacob/papers/encycs.html [HTML];
http://www.cs.tufts.edu/~jacob/papers/encycs.pdf [PDF].
O. Shaer, N. Leland, E.H. Calvillo-Gamez,
and R.J.K. Jacob, "TheTAC Paradigm:
Specifying Tangible User Interfaces," Personal
andUbiquitous Computing, Vol. 8(5) pp.
359-369 (Sept. 2004).
http://www.cs.tufts.edu/~jacob/papers/pucj.pdf [PDF].
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| 10/13 |
Project
1 proposal due --- poster presentation by students |
| 10/20 |
no
class due to the TTT consortium meeting on 10/19-20 |
| 10/27 |
Presentation
of completed Project 1 by students |
| 11/3 |
Tangible
Interfaces Design Cases and Future of TUI (Ishii)
Project 2 assigned |
| 11/10 |
Guest
lecture on Ambient Media - David Rose and Ben Resner |
| 11/17 |
Project
2 proposal due -- poster presentation by
students |
| 11/24 |
Guest
Lecture - Enabling Technologies for Tangible Interfaces
- Dr. Rich Fletcher
Guest Lecture - Tabletop Tangible Interfaces - James Patten |
| 12/1 |
Guest
lecture on Sensorial Communication by Angela Chang
Guest
Lecture
- Kimiko Ryokai |
| 12/8 |
Second
project progress report and discussion
Guest lectures by Hayes Raffle and Amanda Parkes
Digital Manipulatives (Raffle)
Topobo (Raffle/Parkes)
Objects:
Meaning, Complexity and Transformation (Parkes)
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| 12/15 |
9AM
- 12PM Final presentation of completed Project 2sentation
of completed second project |
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