Course Schedule
Subject to Change. Current version: November 17, 2016
Many of the assigned readings are licensed by the UC Berkeley Library, and can be accessed from a computer with a campus IP address. You can also access these materials from off-campus by using the library's proxy server.
Reading assignments will be adjusted throughout the course of the semester.
August 25
- Introduction and Course Overview
August 30
- Ubiquitous Computing
Read before class:
September 1
- Bio-sensors and Bio-signals
Read before class:
September 6
- Data Stewardship
Read before class:
Further reading (optional):
Helen Nissenbaum and Heather Patterson. Biosensing in Context: Health Privacy in a Connected World. In: "Quantified: Biosensing Technologies in Everyday Life", edited by Dawn Nafus, MIT Press, 2016.
Rajiv Mehta. Consumer Health Innovation Opportunities and Privacy Challenges: A View from the Trenches. In: "Quantified: Biosensing Technologies in Everyday Life", edited by Dawn Nafus, MIT Press, 2016.
September 8
- Time-Series Data Analysis
Read before class:
September 13
- Temporal and Spectral Analysis
September 15
- Group Activity and Spectral Analysis
September 20
- Brain-Computer Interaction
Read before class:
September 22
September 27
September 29
- Guest Lecture: Max Curran on Experimental Design and PsychoPy
Complete before class:
Further reading (optional):
John Creswell. Chapter 1 of "Research Design: Qualitative, Quantitative, and Mixed Methods Approaches".
Russel Bernard. Chapter 4 of "Social Research Methods: Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches".
October 4
- Authentication, Identification, and Personalization
Read before class:
October 6
- Physiological & Affective Computing
Read before class:
Kanjo, E., Al-Husain, L. & Chamberlain, A. Emotions in context: examining pervasive affective sensing systems, applications, and analyses. Pers Ubiquit Comput (2015) 19: 1197. doi:10.1007/s00779-015-0842-3
Optional: Fairclough and Gilleade, Introduction (pp. xiii-xv) and Chapter 1 "Meaningful Interaction with Physiological Computing". In: Advances in Physiological Computing, Fairclough and Gilleade (Eds.), Springer, 2014. (Skim other chapters that look interesting to you.)
Optional: Maja Stikic, Robin R. Johnson, Veasna Tan, Chris Berka. EEG-based classification of positive and negative affective states. Brain-Computer Interfaces, June 2014
Optional: Bradley, Margaret M., and Peter J. Lang. Measuring emotion: the self-assessment manikin and the semantic differential. Journal of behavior therapy and experimental psychiatry 25.1 (1994): 49-59.
October 11
- Physiological & Affective Computing
Read before class:
James Vlahos. Barbie wants to get to know your child. New York Times, Sept 16, 2015.
Jesse Fox, Jeremy N. Bailenson, Tony Ricciardi. Physiological responses to virtual selves and virtual others. Journal of CyberTherapy and Rehabilitation, 2012.
Optional: Hernandez, J., McDuff, D., Benavides, X., Amores, J., Maes, P., & Picard, R. W. (2014). AutoEmotive: bringing empathy to the driving experience to manage stress. In Designing Interactive Systems (pp. 53 - 56).
Optional: Pielot, M., Dingler, T., Pedro, J. S., and Oliver, N. When attention is not scarce - detecting boredom from mobile phone usage. UbiComp, ACM, 2015. (video)
October 13
- Guest Lecture: Noura Howell on Biosignals as Social Cues
Read before class:
Kirsten Boehner, Rogerio DePaula, Paul Dourish, and Phoebe Sengers. How Emotion is Made and Measured. Int. J. Hum.-Comput. Stud. 65, 4 (April 2007), 275-291.
Noura Howell, Laura Devendorf, Rundong (Kevin) Tian, Tomas Vega Galvez, Nan-Wei Gong, Ivan Poupyrev, Eric Paulos, Kimiko Ryokai. Biosignals as social cues: Ambiguity and emotional interpretation in social displays of skin conductance. Designing Interactive Systems (DIS'16).
October 18
- Guest Lecture: Nick Merrill on Social Meaning of Elevated Heartrate
Read before class:
October 20
October 25
October 27
- Project 1 Presentations & Feedback
November 1
- Project 1 Presentations & Feedback; Project 2 Roundtable
November 3
- Pervasive Health; Project 2 Roundtable
Read before class:
November 8
- Pervasive Health; Friends and Family
Read before class:
November 10
- Friends and Family; Quantified Workplaces
Read before class:
Snyder, Jaime, et al. MoodLight: Exploring Personal and Social Implications of Ambient Display of Biosensor Data. Proceedings of the 18th ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing. ACM, 2015. (Note: Read up to the end of Related Work Section (p. 145), skim the middle sections, and then read from the Discussion Section (p. 150) until the end of the paper.)
Skim: Ur, Blase, Jaeyeon Jung, and Stuart Schechter. Intruders versus intrusiveness: teens' and parents' perspectives on home-entryway surveillance. Proceedings of the 2014 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing. ACM, 2014.
Skim: Barry Brown, Alex S. Taylor, Shahram Izadi, Abigail Sellen, Joseph 'Jofish' Kaye and Rachel Eardley. Locating Family Values: A Field Trial of the Whereabouts Clock. International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2007.
Kim, Taemie, et al. Sociometric badges: Using sensor technology to capture new forms of collaboration. Journal of Organizational Behavior 33.3 (2012): 412-427.
Optional: Lo, Andrew W., and Dmitry V. Repin. The psychophysiology of real-time financial risk processing. Journal of cognitive neuroscience 14.3 (2002): 323-339.
November 15
- Guest Lecture: Elaine Sedenberg
Read before class:
November 17
- Quantified Workplaces, Quantified Communities
Read before class:
November 22
- Sensing 2026
No readings before class
November 24
November 29
December 1
December 6
- Project 2 Presentations & Feedback
December 13
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