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Date |
Topics + Speaker |
Assignments + Readings |
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THEME I -- Linking the Physical and the Digital World
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Feb 7
Class 1 |
Introduction to the class and the Media-Lab's Mixed Reality work
- Pattie Maes and Ambient Intelligence Group students
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class slides:
MAS672_class01.pdf
optional:
WIMP
History of the graphical user interface
Douglas C. Engelbart 1968 Demo
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Feb 14
Class 2 |
Ubiquitous Computing & Mixed Reality
- Pattie Maes
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class slides:
MAS672_class02.pdf
required:
The Computer for the Twenty-First Century, M. Weiser, Scientific American
Charting Past, Present, and Future Research in Ubiquitous Computing GD Abowd, ED Mynatt, 2000
optional:
Designing interactive paper Presence Journal
special issue on AR, 1997,
Wellner, P.
Beyond
prototypes: Challenges ... (Davies et al)
The DigitalDesk Calculator:
Tangible Manipulation on a Desktop Display, Proceedings of UIST'91,
1991, 27-33
The Perceptive Workbench: Toward Spontaneous and
Natural Interaction
in SemiImmersive Virtual Environments
(2000),
Bastian Leibe, Thad Starner
Interactivedesk,Toshifumi Arai, Kimiyoshi Machii, Soshiro Kuzunuki, Hiroshi Shojima
Bridging the Paper and Electronic Worlds: The Paper
User Interface Johnson, W., Jellinek, H., Klotz,
L. and Card, S., Proceedings of INTERCHI'93, 1993,
507-512
"Listen reader" - an electronically augmented
paper-based book
The Escritoire: A personal projected
display for interacting with documents (2002) Mark
Ashdown
The human experience, Abowd
Proposed ethical guidelines for developers of ubiquitous-computing environments by Adam Greenfield
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Feb 21
Class 3 |
Tangible Computing and Ambient Displays
- Hiroshi Ishii and Tangible Media Group students
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required:
Designing calm technology, M. Weiser and J.S Brown
Tangible Bits, Ishii + Ullmer, CHI97
check out website Tangible Media
Group
optional:
The coming age of calm technology Weiser
Papers by H. Ishii see Tangible Media Group website for all the links
“Slow Technology”, Hallnas &
Redstrom, Personal + Ubiquitous Computing Journal Vol 8 Nr 5
Ambient Interfaces: Design Challenges and
Recommendations”, Tom Gross, Fraunhofer Institute
Tangible Multi-modal
Interfaces, Cohen & McGee
Mobile Feelings, Sommerer + Laurent
Mignonneau
Unremarkable computing by Tolmie et al
Seeing the invisible by Jeffrey Heer and Peter Khooshabeh
Bottles: A Transparent Interface as a Tribute to Mark Weiser Hiroshi Ishii
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Feb 28
Class 4 |
Context and Location-Aware Computing
- Pattie Maes |
class slides:
MAS672_class04.pdf
required
Context-aware computing applications, by Schilit et al
Whereware by Pfeiffer, Technology Review 2003
optional:
Expanding
the horizons of location-aware computing by Roy Want et
al
Challenges
in location-aware computing by Patterson et
al
Context-aware communication by Schilit
1.
City & museum tour guides
Matt
Adcock's slides on Location based city and museum
guides
Hippie: A Nomadic Information System, Oppermann et al,
Proceedings of the 1st international symposium on Handheld and
Ubiquitous Computing
Cyberguide by Abowd et al
GUIDE project
by Cheverst, Davies, et al
2. Virtual Graffiti
systems/Location Based Messaging
Isha's
slides on Virtual Graffiti Systems
Hanging Messages,
Chang
ComMotion, Marmasse
Etherthreads, Lassey
Mobile
cinema, P. Pan
Geonotes, Persson etal
UCSD
ActiveCampus
3. Memory
systems
Forget-me-not Mick Lamming Europarc
Urban Tapestries: Wireless
networking, public authoring and social knowledge, Giles
Lane,
Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, July 2003
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Mar 7
Class 5
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Student Presentations
Regarding Theme I
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PROJECT PRESENTATION + PAPER
#1 DUE
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THEME II -- Intelligent User Interfaces |
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Mar 14
Class 6 |
Interfaces that know you: User Modeling, Personalization, Recommender systems & Software Agents
- Pattie Maes
|
required:
Recommender Systems by Resnick and Varian
Agents that Reduce Work and Information Overload by Pattie Maes
Direct Manipulation vs. Interface Agents: a Debate, by Pattie Maes and B. Schneiderman, Interactions 4, no. 6 (1997). ACM Press
optional:
Beyond
Algorithms: An HCI Perspective on Recommender Systems
Generic User Modeling Systems, Alfred
Kobsa, User Modeling and User-Adapted
Interaction, v.11 n.1-2, p.49-63, 2001
videos:
Knowledge Navigator
StarFire
FutureShock
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Mar 21
Class 7 |
Interfaces with common sense
- Henry Lieberman and Hugo Liu
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required:
Beating some Common Sense into Interactive
Applications, Lieberman et. Al.
optional:
ConceptNet:
A Practical Commonsense reasoning toolkit
Software Agents Group, Media Lab
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Mar 28 |
NO CLASS
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(Spring Vacation)
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Apr 4
Class 8 |
Conversational Interfaces
- Chao Wang,
Research Scientist, CSAIL
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required:
Conversational Interfaces: Advances and Challenges by Victor Zue and James Glass
optional:
Dialog System (on wikipedia)
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Apr 11
Class 9 |
Student Presentations
Regarding Theme II
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PROJECT PRESENTATION + PAPER
#2 DUE
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THEME III -- Aware Environments |
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Apr 18
Class 10 |
Wearable Computers, Body Networks and E-textiles
- Pattie Maes |
required:
E-Broidery:
Design and Fabrication of textile-based
computing
optional:
Electronic
Textiles: A platform for Pervasive Computing
Interactive
and Experiential Design in Smart Textile Products and
Applications
Memory
Rich Clothing: Second Skins that Communicate Physical
Memory
The
Emotional Wardrobe, Lisa Stead1, Journal of Personal and Ubiquitous
computing, July 2004 |
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Apr 25
Class 11 |
Virtual Worlds
- John Lester, Linden Labs |
(readings to follow)
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May 2
Class 12 |
Sentient Architecture and Awareness Systems
- Pattie Maes
- Taemie Kim
- Cory Kidd |
Required:
Keeping
in touch with the family: Home and away, ASTRA
Casablanca:
awareness systems in a home setting
optional:
Georgia Tech Aware Home Project
Stanford iRoom
Project
MIT
House-N
Philips Home Lab Project
Linking
Public Spaces: Technical and Social Issues, Microsoft
Research
Casy:
Awareness system for children in physically distributed
families.
Telewindows:
realtime video connections for the elderly
ComZones:
Video mediated communication in home settings
Portholes,
XEROX Parc
MIT Media Lab smart rooms
project: Pentland, Smart Rooms, Scientific American, Vol 274
+ http://vismod.media.mit.edu/
MIT CSAIL Ogygen project + Aire (Agent-based
Intelligent Reactive Environments)
research group: http://oxygen.lcs.mit.edu/ + http://aire.csail.mit.edu/
Presence Research
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May 9
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NO CLASS
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(
Media Lab Kresge event
on Human 2.0)
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May 16
Class 13 |
Student Presentations
Rregarding Theme III
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PROJECT PRESENTATION + PAPER
#3 DUE |
