Collaboration between
People, Computers and Things

Hiroshi Ishii and Henry Lieberman

Tentative Course Schedule

Feb. 7 Introduction and Course Overview (Ishii and Lieberman)

Self-introduction (students)

Video: "Macintosh PostIt Notes"

Perspective of CSCW, HCI and AI

assignment-1: analysis of personal information management:
1) write a diary of all the information sources you consulted for one day, and 2) think if you have personal computer agent, how it could help you to organize that information?

Feb. 14 Computer Supported Cooperative Work (Ishii)
Grudin (1994)

video: "Colab" (Xerox PARC), etc.

presentation of assignment-1 (students)

Feb. 21 Artificial Intelligence and Intelligent Agents (Lieberman)
Lieberman (1996), Maes (1994)

In-class assignment: Simulating an intelligent agent

Feb. 28 Media Space and Shared Drawing Media (Ishii)
Greenberg (1995), Ishii (1994), Chap 13 of Baecker (1993)
video: "Group Sketch" (U. of Calgary), "TWS and ClearBoard" (NTT), "CAVECAT" (U of Toronto), etc.

assignment-2: think about how we can seamlessly integrate shared information space (e.g. www) and interpersonal space (e.g. MUD) using spatial metaphor.

Mar. 6 Augmented Reality (Ishii and Lieberman)
Wellner (1993), Feiner (1993), Fitzmaurice (1993), Nagao (1995), Cooperstock (1995)
video: "Digital Desk" (EuroParc), "Cameleon" (U. of Toronto), "NaviCam" (SONY CSL),

Mar. 13 Intelligent Agent Interface (Lieberman and Ted Selker)
Cypher (1993), Maes (1994), Lieberman (1996), Stoehr (1995), Nagao (1994), Lakin (1994), Lanier (1995)

Mar. 20 New paradigms of Human-Computer Interactions (Ishii and Lieberman)

Norman (1986, 1993), Koons (1993), Stoehr (1995), Weiser (1991), Weiser (1992), Krueger (1991), Picard (1994), Starner (1995)

video: "Knowledge Navigator" (Apple), "StarFire" (SUN Soft), etc.

Mar. 27 spring vacation (no class)

Apr. 3 Learning and Adaptive Interfaces (Lieberman)
Cypher (1993), Maes (1994), Lieberman (1996)

Apr. 10 Guest speaker (to be announced)

Apr. 17 assignment: go to CHI '96 in Vancouver

Apr. 24 Graspable User Interface and Tangible Bits Project (Ishii and Ullmer)
Fitzmaurice (1995), Buxton (1995)
video: "Bricks" (U. of Toronto)
demo: "Desk and Lens"

May 1 Project Presentations (students)

May 8 Project Presentations (students)
10:00am-12:00am (because of the faculty meeting from 12:00)

May 15. Future Directions of Media (Lieberman)

We will occasionally have guest speakers.

(Current candidates are Charles Rich from MERL, Ted Selker from IBM, etc.)