Course information:

  • Course dates (12 weeks): 14.04., 21.04., 28.04., 02.06., 09.06., 16.06., 23.06., 30.06., 07.07., 14.07.
  • Course time & location:14:15 - 15:45 , room 2222 (i10 Seminar room)
  • Date for the kick-off meeting: 18.02.16, 14:15 - 15:45 , room 2222 (i10 Seminar room)

 

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"

 

Online Learning Room

To be announced.

 

Topics

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

No.
Topic
Supervisor
1.
Audio Augmented Reality (Florian)
2.
Interaction with Wall-Sized Displays (Christian Corsten)
3.
Tangibles on Interactive Surfaces Simon
4.
Smart Textiles (Jan T.)
5.
Personal Fabrication (Jan T.)
6.
Interactive Museum Guides (Philipp)
7.
Visualizing Event Sequence Data (Krishna)
8.
Visualization and Statistics (Krishna)
9.
Direct Touch Latency (Christian Cherek)
10.
Shape Changing Displays (Christian Cherek)

 

Audio Augmented Reality (Florian)

  • Yolanda Vazquez-Alvarez, Ian Oakley, Stephen A. Brewster, 2012, Auditory display design for exploration in mobile audio-augmented reality, Pers. Ubiq. Comp. Link
  • Florian Heller, Aaron Krämer, and Jan Borchers. Simplifying Orientation Measurement for Mobile Audio Augmented Reality Applications. In Proc. CHI '14, pages 615–624, Apr 2014. Link
  • Yolanda Vazquez-Alvarez and Stephen A. Brewster. 2011. Eyes-free multitasking: the effect of cognitive load on mobile spatial audio interfaces. In Proc. CHI '11. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 2173-2176. DOI=10.1145/1978942.1979258 Link

 

Tangibles on Interactive Surfaces (Simon)

  • Rong-Hao Liang, Han-Chih Kuo, Liwei Chan, De-Nian Yang, and Bing-Yu Chen. 2014. GaussStones: shielded magnetic tangibles for multi-token interactions on portable displays. In Proceedings of the 27th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology (UIST '14). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 365-372. DOI=10.1145/2642918.2647384 Link
  • Sergi Jordà, Günter Geiger, Marcos Alonso, and Martin Kaltenbrunner. 2007. The reacTable: exploring the synergy between live music performance and tabletop tangible interfaces. In Proceedings of the 1st international conference on Tangible and embedded interaction (TEI '07). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 139-146. Link
  • Simon Voelker, Christian Cherek, Jan Thar, Thorsten Karrer, Christian Thoresen, Kjell Ivar Øvergård, and Jan Borchers. 2015. PERCs: Persistently Trackable Tangibles on Capacitive Multi-Touch Displays. In Proceedings of the 28th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software & Technology (UIST '15). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 351-356. Link

Smart Textiles (Jan T.)

  • Gilliland, S.; Komor, N.; Starner, T.; Zeagler, C., The Textile Interface Swatchbook: Creating graphical user interface-like widgets with conductive embroidery, in Wearable Computers (ISWC), 2010 International Symposium on , vol., no., pp.1-8, 10-13 Oct. 2010
    doi: 10.1109/ISWC.2010.5665876 Link
  • Kallmayer, C.; Simon, E., Large area sensor integration in textiles, in Systems, Signals and Devices (SSD), 2012 9th International Multi-Conference on , vol., no., pp.1-5, 20-23 March 2012
    doi: 10.1109/SSD.2012.6198112 Link
  • Cherenack, K., and van Pieterson, L.. Smart textiles: challenges and opportunities. Journal of Applied Physics 112.9 (2012): 091301. Link

Personal Fabrication (Jan T.)

  • Christian Weichel, Manfred Lau, David Kim, Nicolas Villar, and Hans W. Gellersen. 2014. MixFab: a mixed-reality environment for personal fabrication. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '14). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 3855-3864. DOI=http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2556288.2557090 Link 
  • Stefanie Mueller, Pedro Lopes, and Patrick Baudisch. 2012. Interactive construction: interactive fabrication of functional mechanical devices. In Proceedings of the 25th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology (UIST '12). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 599-606. DOI=http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2380116.2380191 Link

Interactive Museum Guides (Philipp)

  • Leonard Wein. 2014. Visual recognition in museum guide apps: do visitors want it?. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '14). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 635-638. DOI=http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2556288.2557270
  • Joel Lanir, Tsvi Kuflik, Alan J. Wecker, Oliviero Stock, and Massimo Zancanaro. 2011. Examining proactiveness and choice in a location-aware mobile museum guide. Interact. Comput. 23, 5 (September 2011), 513-524. DOI=http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.intcom.2011.05.007

 

Interaction with Wall-Sized Displays (Christian Corsten)

  • Christian Corsten, Christian Cherek, Thorsten Karrer, and Jan Borchers. 2015. HaptiCase: Back-of-Device Tactile Landmarks for Eyes-Free Absolute Indirect Touch. In Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '15). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 2171-2180. DOI=http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2702123.2702277
  • David C. McCallum and Pourang Irani. 2009. ARC-Pad: absolute+relative cursor positioning for large displays with a mobile touchscreen. In Proceedings of the 22nd annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology (UIST '09). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 153-156. DOI=http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1622176.1622205
  • Mathieu Nancel, Olivier Chapuis, Emmanuel Pietriga, Xing-Dong Yang, Pourang P. Irani, and Michel Beaudouin-Lafon. 2013. High-precision pointing on large wall displays using small handheld devices. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '13). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 831-840. DOI=http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2470654.2470773

 

Visualizing Event Sequence Data (Krishna) (IN ENGLISH)

  • Jian Zhao, Zhicheng Liu, Mira Dontcheva, Aaron Hertzmann, and Alan Wilson. 2015. MatrixWave: Visual Comparison of Event Sequence Data. In Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '15). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 259–268. DOI=http://doi.org/10.1145/2702123.2702419
  • Patrick Riehmann, Manfred Hanfler, and Bernd Froehlich. 2005. Interactive Sankey Diagrams. In IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization 2005. October 23-25, Minneapolis, MN, USA, 233-240. DOI=http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/INFVIS.2005.1532152
  • Benjamin Bach, Conglei Shi, Nicolas Heulot, Tara Madhyastha, Tom Grabowski, and Pierre Dragicevic. 2015. Time Curves: Folding Time to Visualize Patterns of Temporal Evolution in Data. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 559-568. DOI=http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TVCG.2015.2467851

 

Visualization and Statistics (Krishna) (IN ENGLISH)

  • Yukari Shirota, Yutaka Takahashi, Nobuhide Tanaka, and Michiya Morita. 2015. Visually Do Statistics for Business Persons: Visual Materials from Regression to Black-Sholes Model. The 8th International Symposium on Visual Information Communication and Interaction (VINCI '15), New York, USA, 170–173. DOI=http://doi.org/10.1145/2801040.2802138
  • Chat Wacharamanotham, Krishna Subramanian, Sarah Theres Völkel, and Jan Borchers. 2015. Statsplorer: Guiding Novices in Statistical Analysis. In Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '15). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 2693-2702. DOI=http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2702123.2702347

 

Direct Touch Latency (Christian Cherek)

  • Elie Cattan, Amélie Rochet-Capellan, Pascal Perrier, and François Bérard. 2015. Reducing Latency with a Continuous Prediction: Effects on Users' Performance in Direct-Touch Target Acquisitions. In Proceedings of the 2015 International Conference on Interactive Tabletops & Surfaces (ITS '15). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 205-214. DOI=http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2817721.2817736
  • Jonathan Deber, Ricardo Jota, Clifton Forlines, and Daniel Wigdor. 2015. How Much Faster is Fast Enough?: User Perception of Latency & Latency Improvements in Direct and Indirect Touch. In Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '15). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 1827-1836. DOI=http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2702123.2702300

 

Shape Changing Displays (Christian Cherek)

  • Philipp Schoessler, Daniel Windham, Daniel Leithinger, Sean Follmer, and Hiroshi Ishii. 2015. Kinetic Blocks: Actuated Constructive Assembly for Interaction and Display. In Proceedings of the 28th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software & Technology (UIST '15). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 341-349. DOI=http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2807442.2807453
  • John Hardy, Christian Weichel, Faisal Taher, John Vidler, and Jason Alexander. 2015. ShapeClip: Towards Rapid Prototyping with Shape-Changing Displays for Designers. In Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '15). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 19-28. DOI=http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2702123.2702599

 

 

Milestones

#TopicTeam
Advisor
Literature Review
Report Outline
Report Draft
Camera-ready Slides
Presentation
Final Report*
1 Audio Augmented Reality   (Florian) 03.03. 10.03. 31.03. 07.04. 14.04. 28.04.
2 Interaction with Wall-Sized Displays   (Christian Corsten) 10.03. 17.03. 07.04. 14.04. 21.04. 05.05.
3 Tangibles on Interactive Surfaces   Simon 17.03. 24.03. 14.04. 21.04. 28.04. 12.05.
4 Smart Textiles   (Jan T.) 21.04. 28.04 19.05. 26.05. 02.06. 16.06.
5 Personal Fabrication   (Jan T.) 28.04. 05.05 26.05. 02.06. 09.06. 23.06.
6 Interactive Museum Guides   (Philipp) 05.05. 12.05. 02.06. 09.06. 16.06. 30.06.
7 Visualizing Event Sequence Data   (Krishna) 12.05. 19.05. 09.06. 16.06. 23.06. 07.07.
8 Visualization and Statistics   (Krishna) 19.05. 26.05. 16.06. 23.06. 30.06. 14.07.
9 Direct Touch Latency   (Christian Cherek) 26.05. 02.06. 23.06. 30.06. 07.07. 21.07.
10 Shape Changing Displays   (Christian Cherek) 02.06. 09.06. 30.06. 07.07. 14.07. 28.07.