Seminar: Post-Desktop User Interfaces WS 19/20

Intelligent User Interfaces

Course information:

This seminar will cover current topics connecting HCI and machine learning. How can intelligent systems improve the interaction with a device? Topics will range from voice controlled systems to image recognition to adapting UIs. The focus will be on the interaction with intelligent systems rather than the technical foundations of machine learning.

Mandatory kick-off meeting:

Dependent on the date of the final allocation of seminar/practical course seats.

Mandatory course dates :

Course time & location:

Course Aim:

After having achieved a general overview of the area of Human-Computer Interaction, this seminar will provide students with an idea of the current research topics that are being tackled in the research community. After the seminar, students will have some in-depth knowledge about one current area of HCI, and will have heard talks about numerous others. The seminar also provides students with an opportunity to refine their scientific writing and presentation skills, and since the topics are assigned to groups of two students each, it is also another chance to learn how to work efficiently as a team.

Allocation:

Field of study:

• Informatik (Master)
• Informatik (Bachelor, if you already attended a Proseminar)
• Media Informatics (M.Sc.)/Multimediabenutzung und -wirkung/in Aachen
• System Software Engineering (SSE) Communication and Software Engineering

ECTS Credits: 4
The seminar will be held in English.

Attendance Policy

To pass the course the student have to attend all presentations (14:30 - 16:00) at the following dates: 21.11.2019, 28.11.2019, 05.12.2019, 12.12.2019, 19.12.2019, 09.01.2020, 16.01.2020

Lecturer:

• Marcel Lahaye

Quotes From Past Student Feedback:

"The discussion of the presentation style and drawbacks was really useful so one can improve his skills, and now I find presentations with less text and images just amazing. :) I have completely changed my opinion of what a good presentation looks like." — Anonymous student feedback, 2011.
"I really liked the extensive feedback on the presentation. I feel like I really learned a lot from this feedback and I know what to work on in future presentations now. Also, the rather rigid structure of the seminar was very good. My weaker self didn't like all the deadlines but after all it helped actually dividing the amount of work over the whole semester." — Anonymous student feedback, 2011.

Course requirements:

Please agree to the Ethical Guidelines for the Authoring of Academic Work (Ethische Richtlinien für das Verfassen wissenschaftlicher Arbeiten) by signing the Declaration of Compliance (Erklärung zur Seminararbeit). Return the signed declaration on the first day of the seminar meeting.

The RWTH CS library offers a course to literature review (Literaturrecherche für Informatiker). This course is mandatory for all bachelor students to participate in our seminar.

Required reading (before kick-off meeting):

Writing for Computer Science by Justin Zobel (available at RWTH library & Informatik library)

• Chapter 10: Doing Research
• Chapter 9: Writing Up

"How to Read an Engineering Research Paper"

• http://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~wgg/CSE210/howtoread.html

Online Learning Room

To be announced.

Topics

This seminar deals with topics in HCI that go beyond the desktop. In groups of two, you will work on one of the topics listed below. The topics will be assigned in the kick-off meeting. We provide starting papers for each topic.

01: Tangible User Interfaces in Personal Fabrication:

• Christian Weichel, John Hardy, Jason Alexander, and Hans Gellersen. 2015. ReForm: Integrating Physical and Digital Design through Bidirectional Fabrication. In Proceedings of the 28th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software & Technology (UIST '15). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 93-102. link

02: Digital Fabrication Tools in Personal Fabrication

• Rundong Tian, Sarah Sterman, Ethan Chiou, Jeremy Warner, and Eric Paulos. 2018. MatchSticks: Woodworking through Improvisational Digital Fabrication. In Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '18). ACM, New York, NY, USA, Paper 149, 12 pages.link

03: Instructional Methods for Personal Fabrication Tasks

• arrod Knibbe, Tovi Grossman, and George Fitzmaurice. 2015. Smart Makerspace: An Immersive Instructional Space for Physical Tasks. In Proceedings of the 2015 International Conference on Interactive Tabletops & Surfaces (ITS '15). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 83-92. link

04: Touch Input On Curved Surfaces

• Anne Roudaut, Henning Pohl, and Patrick Baudisch. 2011. Touch input on curved surfaces. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '11). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 1011-1020. link

05: Modeling in Augmented Reality

• Rahul Arora, Rubaiat Habib Kazi, Tovi Grossman, George Fitzmaurice, and Karan Singh. 2018. SymbiosisSketch: Combining 2D & 3D Sketching for Designing Detailed 3D Objects in Situ. In Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '18). ACM, New York, NY, USA, Paper 185, 15 pages. link

06: Tangibles on Interactive Surfaces

• Nicolas Villar, Daniel Cletheroe, Greg Saul, Christian Holz, Tim Regan, Oscar Salandin, Misha Sra, Hui-Shyong Yeo, William Field, and Haiyan Zhang. 2018. Project Zanzibar: A Portable and Flexible Tangible Interaction Platform. In Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '18). ACM, New York, NY, USA, Paper 515, 13 pages.link

07: Reputation in StackOverflow

• Shaowei Wang, David Lo, and Lingxiao Jiang. 2013. An Empirical Study on Developer Interactions in StackOverflow. In Proceedings of the 28th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC '13). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 6 pages. Link.

08: Interactive Jewellery & Accessories

• Maarten Versteeg, Elise van den Hoven, Caroline Hummels. 2016. Interactive Jewellery: a design exploration. In Proceedings of the TEI '16: Tenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction- TEI '16. ACM Press. link

09: From Physical to Virtual Worlds

• Joan Sol Roo and Martin Hachet. 2017. One Reality: Augmenting How the Physical World is Experienced by combining Multiple Mixed Reality Modalities. In Proceedings of the 30th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST '17). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 787-795.link

10: Reachability in Mixed Reality

• Joon Hyub Lee, Sang-Gyun An, Yongkwan Kim, and Seok-Hyung Bae. 2018. Projective Windows: Bringing Windows in Space to the Fingertip. In Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '18). ACM, New York, NY, USA, Paper 218, 8 pages. link

11: Gaze Interactions

• Ken Pfeuffer and Hans Gellersen. 2016. Gaze and Touch Interaction on Tablets. In Proceedings of the 29th Annual Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST '16). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 301-311 link

12: Use your Head!

• Diako Mardanbegi, Dan Witzner Hansen, and Thomas Pederson. 2012. Eye-based head gestures. In Proceedings of the Symposium on Eye Tracking Research and Applications (ETRA '12), Stephen N. Spencer (Ed.). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 139-146. link

13: Force Input on Touch Devices

• Christian Corsten, Marcel Lahaye, Jan Borchers, and Simon Voelker. 2019. ForceRay: Extending Thumb Reach via Force Input Stabilizes Device Grip for Mobile Touch Input. In Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '19). ACM, New York, NY, USA, Paper 212, 12 pages. link 

14: On-Skin Tactile Interfaces:

• Nur Al-huda Hamdan, Adrian Wagner, Simon Voelker, Jürgen Steimle, and Jan Borchers. 2019. Springlets: Expressive, Flexible and Silent On-Skin Tactile Interfaces. In Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '19). ACM, New York, NY, USA, Paper 488, 14 pages. DOI: link
• Anusha Withana, Daniel Groeger, and Jürgen Steimle. 2018. Tacttoo: A Thin and Feel-Through Tattoo for On-Skin Tactile Output. In Proceedings of the 31st Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST '18). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 365-378. DOI: link

Submission Milestones

All submissions have to be sent to the supervisor until 12:00 (noon) via mail. Include the tag [PDUI] and the name of the topic as well as the milestone (e.g., "[PDUI] Explainable AI, Report Outline").

Literature Review

List of 7+ topic-related research papers with a contribution and benefits statement stating the contribution type each with a consistent storyline on how these papers are related to each other.

Report Outline

Clear structure of the final paper submission. What is the storyline you want to convey? How are you introducing the topic? What are the arguments you are providing? How are you connecting the papers to each other and your arguments?

First Report

This is the first complete draft of your seminar paper (10 content pages in the ACM Journal Template). We expect you to submit a version which you consider complete. No spelling mistakes, a closed argumentation, a complete bibliography, including all figures. The better your submission the better the feedback we can provide. If we need to fix spelling mistakes we have less time for in-depth feedback.

You can download the template or set up a collaborative Latex project using Overleaf. In both cases, make sure that you use the "Journal Small" documentclass: \documentclass[acmsmall]{acmart}

Slides

The first complete version of your presentation slides (Powerpoint, Keynote, Prezi, ....). The same applies as for the First Report. Hand in slides which you would confidently use for a presentation on the next day.

Camera-ready Slides

The next version of your presentation slides that include your supervisor's feedback. You will get even more in-depth feedback again for these slides.

Presentation (50% of Grade)

The presentation in front of the other students and your supervisor. We expect a well-prepared presentation. Test your talk at least once in the room where you are going to present to familiarise yourself with the equipment and test your slides on the beamer in the room. The presentation time will be 20 minutes followed by a 20 minutes discussion where you will get feedback and questions from your supervisor and your peers. We encourage a constructive feedback interaction where you can learn from each other and have a fun conversation on how to improve your presentation style.

Final Report (50% of Grad)

Your final submission of your seminar paper. You have time during the presentation week to include your supervisor's feedback.

Milestone Dates

* No meeting.

Example presentation from Marcel Lahaye and Aaron Krämer

Course Material

• Kick-Off Meeting Slides

Additional Information:

• How NOT To Use Powerpoint By Comedian Don McMillan (:wink:)
• Hints on how to prepare and present a seminar topic
• Jan's presentation guidelines
• Polish your presentations (Macworld.com)
• The Elements of Style improve your writing style
• Writing concisely
• Ethics Policy for Courses Taught at i10

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• PDUI SS 2019
• PDUI SS 2018
• PDUI SS 2017
• PDUI SS 2016
• PDUI SS 2015
• PDUI SS 2014
• PDUI SS 2013
• PDUI WS 1011
• PDUI WS 0910
• PDUI WS 0809
• PDUI WS 0708
• PDUI WS 0607
• PDUI WS 0506
• PDUI SS 2005
• PDUI SS 2004