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Theory and Practice of Tangible User Interfaces

Syllabus

 

Lecture: Tuesday 10:30am-12:00pm Lab: Thursday
10:30am-12:00pm
 
    8/28 Course Introduction
9/2 Activity Theory and TUI 9/4 Intro to Physical Computing
9/9 Tangible Bits 9/11 Digital I/O with Arduino Boards
9/16 Taxonomy of TUIs: Containers, Tools and Token 9/18 Sensing: Potentiometers
9/23 Calm Computing and Ambient Media 9/25 Sensing: Force sensors and photocells
9/30 Human Centered Design 10/2 Output: Piezo speakers
10/7 Design and Innovation 10/9 Output: DC motors
10/14 Midterm Project Review 10/16 Output: Servo motors
10/21 Guest Lecture by Hayes Raffle 10/23 Output: Simple mechanics
10/28 Guest Lecture by Wendy Ju 10/30 Synthesis: Invent a music instrument (group work)
11/4 Guest Lecture by Liz Goodman 11/6 Synthesis: Invent a music instrument (group work)
11/11 [Holiday] 11/13 Guest lecture by Mike Kuniavsky (ThingM)
11/18 Final project progress report and critique 11/20 Final project progress report and critique
11/25 Guest Lecture by Patrick Goodwill 11/27 [Holiday]
12/2 Evaluating TUIs 12/4 Summary
12/9 Final Project Exhibition 12/11 Final Project Exhibition part II