INFO 290. Sensors, Humans, Data, and Apps

UC Berkeley
School of Information
Fall 2015

Course Schedule

Subject to Change. Current version: November 30, 2015.

August 28

  • Introduction and Course Overview

August 31

  • Bio Signals and Sensors

September 4

  • Engineering and Prototyping Interactions with Sensors (Nick Merrill)

September 7

  • Labor Day -- No class

September 11

  • Design Challenge
  • A1 due

September 14

  • Project 1 Roundtable
  • A2 due

September 18

  • Project 1 Roundtable
  • A3 due

September 21

  • Analysis of Time-Series Data

September 25

  • Social Aspects of Biosensing (Dawn Nafus, Intel Labs)
  • P1a due

September 28

  • Frequency Domain Analysis

October 2

  • Correlation-Based Analysis

October 5

  • Project Group Work
  • P1b due

October 9

  • Promises and Challenges of Biosensors: A "Hands on" Perspective (Thomas Maillart)

October 12

  • Remote and Wearable Eye-Tracking (Naghmeh Shafiei, SMI)

October 16

  • Project Group Work

October 19

  • P1 Presentations & Feedback

October 23

  • Strategies for Creating Consumer Products with Biosense Data (Andy Brooks)
  • P1c due

October 26

  • Physiological & Affective Computing

October 30

  • Brain-Computer Interface

November 2

  • Project 2 Roundtable
  • A4 due

November 6

  • Social Biosensing
  • P2a due

November 9

  • Social Biosensing 2

November 13

  • Quantified Mind: Using Context-Awareness to Track and Improve Cognitive Activities (Tilman Dingler, University of Stuttgart)

November 16

  • Stewardship

November 20

  • Wellness Technology Design (Pablo Paredes)
  • P2b due

November 23

  • Project 2 Updates; Stewardship 2

November 26

  • Thanksgiving -- No Class

November 30

  • Working Session

December 4

  • Working Session

December 7

  • P2 Presentations & Feedback

December 14

  • P2c due