CLASS ASSIGNMENTS
2/15/01Read A Natural History of the Senses by Diane Ackerman
Read sections on spatial processing from Moor "An introduction to the psychology
of Hearing",
Lederman
and Loomis article on touch
Read the
chapter on spatial perception from Palmer "Vision science" OR Goldstein's
"Sensation and Perception" Chapter 8
Try to
equate the mechanisms for spatial processing in hearing, vision and touch.
2/22/01Moore - Ch. 7 Auditory Pattern and object perception
Class listening to Shepard tones; experiment with detecting using echo
(like bats)
2/29/01Moore - Ch. 6 Space Perception
Class lecture by Rahul Sharpeskar on the silicon Cochlea
Read inTouch
document, distributed by Hiroshi Ishii.
3/02/01Hand Movements: A Window into Haptic Object Recognition by Lederman
and Klatzky (1987)
Goldstein - Ch. 7 Perceiving Objects
Goldstein - Ch. 8 Perceiving Visual Space
Class Lecture by Hiroshi Ishii
Assignment
1 Due 3/7 : Touch Exploratory Procedures (EPs)
Anj's
Assignment 1
Class discussion on assessment of touch EPs
3/07/01Class Lecture by Sandy Pentland and Rob Jacob on Vision
*Assignment
2 Due 3/14: A Comparison of Senses
Anj's Assignment 2
Reading- Viking Smells Paper
In advance of Jo Fish's talk please read the article by Cain on Olfaction
from "Steven's Handbook of Perception" that is on the class reading list.
The book is a reference book and can be found t the Humanities Library,
with the reference number call number REF / BF181.H336
3/14/01Class handout on Sensory comparisons, Assignment 2 review
Class activity on rating the smells of rosewater
Class Lecture on Smell by Jofish
*Assignment
3 Due 3/21: MLE
Anj's Assignment
3
3/21/01 Class will take place in the Roth Room
5/17/01 Final
Project Paper on ComTouch
comtouch.doc (1.67Kb)
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Thursday February 15th
Things arn't always what they seem: Sensory Illusions and the
Senses of Animals
Sile O'Modhrain and (speaker TBA)
Thursday February 22nd:
Have you ever heard?
Sile O'Modhrain and Rahul Sarpeshkar MIT AI Lab
Thursday March 1st:
Maybe feeling is believing.
Sile O'Modhrain and Hiroshi Ishii, MIT Media Lab
Thursday March 8th:
And then there's Vision
Sile O'Modhrain and Sandy Pentland, MIT Media Lab
Thursday March 15th:
Taste and Smell and computation?
Sile O'Modhrain and Jo Fish MIT Media Lab
Thursday March 22nd
The senses in dialogue
Sile O'Modhrain and Deb Roy MIT Media Lab
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Essential Reading:
Ackerman, Diane; "A natural history of the senses"
New York : Random House, 1990.
Dodsworth, Clarke; "Digital Illusion: Entertaining the Future
with High Technology"
New York: ACM Press; Reading, Mass. Addison-Wesley, 1998.
Goldstein, E. Bruce; "Sensation and Perception" (5th Ed.)
Pacific Grove : Brooks/Cole Pub., 1999.
Additional Resources:
Hearing:
Cook, Perry (ed)
"Music, Cognition and Computerized Sound: An introduction to
psychoacoustics",
MIT Press, Cambridge MA, 1999
Moore, Brian C. J.
"An Introduction to the Psychology of Hearing" (4th Ed.)
Academic Press, San Diego, 1997.
Pickles, James
"An Introduction to the Physiology of Hearing" (2nd Ed.)
Academic Press, 1988
Touch:
Burdea, Grigore C.
"Force and Touch Feedback for Virtual Reality",
John Wiley & Sons; New York, 1996
Lederman, S. J. and Klatzky, R. L.
"Hand Movements: A Window Into Haptic Object Recognition"
Cognitive Psychology; VVol. 19 No. 3, pp. 342-368, 1987
Loomis, J. and Lederman, S.J. Tactual perception.
"Tactual Perception"
In Boff, K. R., Kaufman, L. and Thomas, J. P. (Eds)
"Handbook of Perception and Human Performance"
Vol. 2: Cognitive processes and performance.;
John Wiley & Sons; New York, 1986
Tan, H. Z., Srinivasan, M. A., Eberman, B., and Cheng, B.
"Human Factors for the Design of Force-reflecting Haptic Interfaces"
Proceedings of the ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Division, DSC-Vol.
55
PP 353-359; 1994
Smell:
Axel, Richard.
"The molecular logic of smell"
Scientific American; October, 1995, 273 154-159
Engen, Trygg.
"Odor Sensation and Memory"
Praeger Publishers; New York, 1991 is very good mix of technical/non
technical. Best individual
Cain, William.
"Olfaction"
IN Richard C. Atkinson, Richard J. Herrnstein, Gradner Lindzey, and
Duncan Luce (eds.),
"Stevens' Handbook of Experimental Psychology." (2nd Ed.)
Vol. 1: Perception and Motivation.
John Wiley & Sons; New York, 1988
Classen, C., Howes, D. and Synnott, A.,
"Aroma. The cultural history of smell."
Routledge; London, 1994. is an excellent cultural background -- not
Watson, Lyall.
"Jacobson's Organ and the Remarkable Nature of Smell."
WW Norton & Company; New York, 2000
Vision:
Palmer, S. E.
"Vision science: photons to phenomenology"
. MIT Press; Cambridge, MA, 1999
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Shepard reference:
Shepard, R.N. (1981). Psychophysical complementarity. In M. Kubovy
and
J.R. Pomerantz (eds.) Perceptual Organization, Hillsdale, N.J.:Erlbaum.
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