PDUI SS15

• Course dates: 16.04., 23.04., 30.04., 07.05., 21.05., 11.06., 18.06., 25.06., 02.07, 09.07., 16.07.
• Course time & location:14:15 - 15:45 , room 2222 (i10 Seminar room)
• Date for the kick-off meeting: 19.02.2015, 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"

• 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. WATCHa Doin'? Interaction with Small Screens

• Xiang 'Anthony' Chen, Tovi Grossman, Daniel J. Wigdor, and George Fitzmaurice. 2014. Duet: Exploring Joint Interactions on a Smart Phone and a Smart Watch. In Proc. CHI '14, pp. 159–168. DOI: 10.1145/2556288.2556955 Link
• Robert Xiao, Gierad Laput, and Chris Harrison. 2014. Expanding the Input Expressivity of Smartwatches with Mechanical Pan, Twist, Tilt and Click. In Proc. CHI '14, pp. 193–196. DOI: 10.1145/2556288.2557017 Link
• Ian Oakley and Doyoung Lee. 2014. Interaction on the Edge: Offset Sensing for Small Devices. In Proc. CHI '14, pp. 169–178. DOI: 10.1145/2556288.2557138 Link

2. Tangibles on Interactive Surfaces

• 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

• Simon Voelker, Kosuke Nakajima, Christian Thoresen, Yuichi Itoh, Kjell Ivar Øvergård, and Jan Borchers. 2013. PUCs: detecting transparent, passive untouched capacitive widgets on unmodified multi-touch displays. In Proceedings of the 2013 ACM international conference on Interactive tabletops and surfaces (ITS '13). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 101-104. DOI=10.1145/2512349.2512791 Link

3. Gaze and Touch

• Ken Pfeuffer, Jason Alexander, Ming Ki Chong, and Hans Gellersen. 2014. Gaze-touch: combining gaze with multi-touch for interaction on the same surface. In Proceedings of the 27th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology (UIST '14). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 509-518. DOI=10.1145/2642918.2647397 Link
• 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. DOI=10.1145/2470654.2470695 Link

4. Interaction with 3D Objects

Élisabeth Rousset, François Bérard, and Michaël Ortega. 2014. Two-finger 3D rotations for novice users: surjective and integral interactions. In Proceedings of the 2014 International Working Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI '14). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 217-224. DOI=10.1145/2598153.2598183 Link
Kenrick Kin, Tom Miller, Björn Bollensdorff, Tony DeRose, Björn Hartmann, and Maneesh Agrawala. 2011. Eden: a professional multitouch tool for constructing virtual organic environments. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '11). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 1343-1352. DOI=10.1145/1978942.1979141 Link

5. Absolute Indirect Touch

Jérémie Gilliot, Géry Casiez, and Nicolas Roussel. 2014. Impact of form factors and input conditions on absolute indirect-touch pointing tasks. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '14). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 723-732. DOI=10.1145/2556288.2556997 Link
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=10.1145/2470654.2470773 Link

6. Quantifying users’ movement for graphical input devices

Johnny Accot and Shumin Zhai. 1997. Beyond Fitts' law: models for trajectory-based HCI tasks. InProceedings of the ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human factors in computing systems (CHI '97). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 295-302. DOI=10.1145/258549.258760 Link
Myroslav Bachynskyi, Gregorio Palmas, Antti Oulasvirta, Jürgen Steimle, Tino Weinkauf
Performance and Ergonomics of Touch Surfaces: A Comparative Study using Biomechanical Simulation
In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’15). (full paper, to appear) Link

7. Why Don’t Software Developers Use Static Analysis Tools to Find Bugs?

• Brittany Johnson, Yoonki Song, Emerson Murphy-Hill, and Robert Bowdidge. 2013. Why don't software developers use static analysis tools to find bugs?. In Proceedings of the 2013 International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE '13). IEEE Press, Piscataway, NJ, USA, 672-681.

8. Envision: A Fast and Flexible Visual Code Editor with Fluid Interactions

• D. Asenov and P. Müller: Envision: A Fast and Flexible Visual Code Editor with Fluid Interactions (Overview)
Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC), 2014

9. Issues with Current Statistical Practice

• Paul Cairns. 2007. HCI... not as it should be: inferential statistics in HCI research. In Proceedings of the 21st British HCI Group Annual Conference on People and Computers: HCI...but not as we know it - Volume 1 (BCS-HCI '07), Vol. 1. British Computer Society, Swinton, UK, UK, 195-201. Link
• Maurits Kaptein and Judy Robertson. 2012. Rethinking statistical analysis methods for CHI. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '12). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 1105-1114. DOI=10.1145/2207676.2208557 Link

10. Extracting References Between Text and Charts via Crowdsourcing

• Nicholas Kong, Marti A. Hearst, and Maneesh Agrawala. 2014. Extracting references between text and charts via crowdsourcing. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '14). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 31-40. DOI=10.1145/2556288.2557241 Link

11. Comparing Images on Small Screens

• Bongwon Suh, Haibin Ling, Benjamin B. Bederson, and David W. Jacobs. 2003. Automatic thumbnail cropping and its effectiveness. In Proceedings of the 16th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology (UIST '03). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 95-104. DOI=10.1145/964696.964707 Link
• David E. Jacobs, Dan B. Goldman, and Eli Shechtman. 2010. Cosaliency: where people look when comparing images. In Proceedings of the 23nd annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology (UIST '10). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 219-228. DOI=10.1145/1866029.1866066 Link

Milestones

* There is no meeting for the final report.