HCI833 Advanced User Interface Technology

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HCI-833 Advanced User Interface Technology

• Scott Hudson
• scott.hudson_at_cs.cmu.edu
• NSH 3523

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About the class

• PhD level
• Review of current cool technology in user
  interface
• Technology oriented but (hopefully) accessible
  for non-CS students
• Readings, lecture, and discussion
• Project oriented
• Final exam, but no midterm

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Things for you to do today

• Fill out the questionnaire and return by end of
  lecture
• Send me an email from your preferred address

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Administrative

• Contact info
• scott.hudson_at_cs.cmu.edu
• http//www.cs.cmu.edu/hudson/teaching/05-833
• Office hours (my office is NSH 3523)
• Mon 230-325 (but email first)
• No textbook
• Readings (mostly from the web)
• Will ask you to buy some hardware
• BasicStamp II (approx cost 50)
• Last 1/3 of class (details later)

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Lecture and reading topics (tentative)

• Quick introduction to UI Architecture
• Animation in the interface
• Kinetic typography
• Awareness systems
• Sketch-based interfaces
• Beating Fitts law
• Ambient display and interaction
• Tangible interfaces

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Lecture and reading topics (tentative)

• Toolglass and Magic Lens interaction
• Hardware devices for interaction
• Hardware building skills component
• Context-aware computing
• Audio interaction
• (Other topics time permitting)

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Projects

• 3 challenging projects, one with a paper
• Projects will attempt to break new research
  ground
• I have ideas for this
• You can propose things
• Goal (but not requirement) is to do work that can
  be published
• Interdisciplinary teams where appropriate
• I can contribute (and co-author) where
  appropriate
• UIST deadline is 5 April

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Project One

• Topics
• Use of dynamics in the interface
• Awareness
• Example projects
• Design sketches for small screen web browser
  using kinetic typography
• Design sketches for attention direction technique
  library
• Kinetic typography engine in Java
• Shadow view privacy preserving video
  implementation

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Project Two

• Topics
• First project topics
• Also Continuation of 1st project, or
  implementation of design(s) from the 1st project
• Beating Fitts law
• Sketching for UI specification
• Ambient Interaction

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Project Two

• Example projects
• Kinetic typography web browser or attention
  library implementation
• Depth camera privacy
• User interface specification in PhotoShop
• Movement prediction techniques
• Low engagement interaction technique design
  sketches
• Email glance design sketches
• Paper describing results

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Project Three

• Topics
• Hardware devices for ambient or tangible
  interface
• Hardware toolkits
• Example projects
• Build a gadget or display
• Hardware toolkit component

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