Course information:

• Course dates: 10.4, 17.04, 24.04, 08.05, 15.05, 22.05, 05.06, 26.06.,03.07,10.07
• Course time & location: 3.15 - 4.45., room 2222 (i10 Seminar room)
• Date for the kick-off meeting: 13.02.2014 3.15 - 4.45, 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"

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

Online Learning Room

to be announced.

Themes

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 two starting papers for each topic.

References

1. Controlling computers with your bare hands (Chat)

Why do interacting with computers have to be restricted to pressing buttons on gadgets, ignoring 29 degrees of freedom of your hand? In this semester, you will take a look how HCI literature interpret hand motion for controlling computers.

Guiding question: How are data captured from human hand motion interpreted for interaction designs?

• Understanding human movement capability: Antti Oulasvirta, Teemu Roos, Arttu Modig, and Laura Leppänen. 2013. Information capacity of full-body movements. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '13). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 1289-1298. Link
• A technique for 3D manipulation: Manuel Veit, Antonio Capobianco, and Dominique Bechmann. 2010. Dynamic decomposition and integration of degrees of freedom for 3-D positioning. In Proceedings of the 17th ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology (VRST '10). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 131-134. Link

2. Extending digital interfaces to the physical world with smartphone projection (Nur)

In 2012 Sumsung released the first smartphone with integrated projector~~Samsung Galaxy Beam. What new potentials does this technology have? E.g., mixed and augmented reality, rapid physical prototyping, collaboration, etc. And what challenges does this technology bring upon interaction designers? E.g., interaction techniques, gestural interaction, accessibility, interface layout design, etc.

• Robert Xiao, Chris Harrison, and Scott E. Hudson. 2013. WorldKit: rapid and easy creation of ad-hoc interactive applications on everyday surfaces. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '13). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 879-888. Link
• Bonifaz Kaufmann and Martin Hitz. 2012. X-large virtual workspaces for projector phones through peephole interaction. In Proceedings of the 20th ACM international conference on Multimedia (MM '12). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 1279-1280. Link

3. Content-Based Tools for Editing Audio Stories (Leonhard)

• Steve Rubin, Floraine Berthouzoz, Gautham J. Mysore, Wilmot Li, and Maneesh Agrawala. 2013. Content-based tools for editing audio stories. In Proceedings of the 26th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology (UIST '13). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 113-122. Link

4. Interactive Personal Fabrication (René)

• Stefanie Mueller, Bastian Kruck, and Patrick Baudisch. 2013. LaserOrigami: laser-cutting 3D objects. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '13). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 2585-2592. Link

5 Development Tools (Jan-Peter)

• Hsiang-Sheng Liang, Kuan-Hung Kuo, Po-Wei Lee, Yu-Chien Chan, Yu-Chin Lin, and Mike Y. Chen. 2013. SeeSS: seeing what i broke visualizing change impact of cascading style sheets (css). In Proceedings of the 26th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology (UIST '13). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 353-356. Link

6 Interactive tools for web application debugging (Jan-Peter)

• Brian Burg, Richard Bailey, Andrew J. Ko, and Michael D. Ernst. 2013. Interactive record/replay for web application debugging. In Proceedings of the 26th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology (UIST '13). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 473-484. Link

7. Shape displays (Simon)

• Daniel Leithinger, Sean Follmer, Alex Olwal, Samuel Luescher, Akimitsu Hogge, Jinha Lee, and Hiroshi Ishii. 2013. Sublimate: state-changing virtual and physical rendering to augment interaction with shape displays. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '13). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 1441-1450. Link
• Sean Follmer, Daniel Leithinger, Alex Olwal, Akimitsu Hogge, and Hiroshi Ishii. 2013. inFORM: dynamic physical affordances and constraints through shape and object actuation. In Proceedings of the 26th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology (UIST '13). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 417-426. Link

8. Printed optics on interactive surfaces (Simon)

• Karl Willis, Eric Brockmeyer, Scott Hudson, and Ivan Poupyrev. 2012. Printed optics: 3D printing of embedded optical elements for interactive devices. In Proceedings of the 25th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology (UIST '12). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 589-598. Link
• Eric Brockmeyer, Ivan Poupyrev, and Scott Hudson. 2013. PAPILLON: designing curved display surfaces with printed optics. In Proceedings of the 26th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology (UIST '13). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 457-462. DOI=10.1145/2501988.2502027 Link

9. Music Interfaces (Florian)

• Steven Gelineck, Dan Overholt, Morten Büchert and Jesper Andersen. Towards an Interface for Music Mixing based on Smart Tangibles and Multitouch, NIME 2013
Link

10. Combining Gaze and Touch (Simon)

• Sophie Stellmach and Raimund Dachselt. 2013. Still looking: investigating seamless gaze-supported selection, positioning, and manipulation of distant targets. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '13). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 285-294. Link

Milestones

* There is no meeting for the final report.