Annoucement: There is no lecture this week (Aug. 10) due to the national holiday, but please start to think about possible project ideas and the theme you want to work on.

Annoucement: The course web page is created at: http://ivle.nus.edu.sg/module/student/?CourseID=d843237b-2ac0-4922-a1d5-af6dada16234&ClickFrom=Outline

CS4249 Fall 2009: Design of Advanced User Interfaces

As computers become more embedded and pervasive, the design of their interface has become increasingly specialised to meet specific task needs while
remaining subjective to the overall requirement of usability. This course will expose students to a broad range of advanced and novel interfaces that are
having an impact both at work and in play. It will focus on the design of such interfaces and emphasise the importance of usability and task fit. Students
are required to read critically and extensively and contribute to class discussion. They will also be required to design and implement a
project either individually or in groups.

For undergraduate students, you can form groups with up to 4 members

For graduate students, you need to work individually.

Modular Credits: 4
Prerequisite(s): CS3240 and CS3248 (or by special approval)

Professor:

Shengdong Zhao (www.comp.nus.edu/~zhaosd)

Teaching Assistants:

Don Sim Jianqiang

Class time and location:

Every Monday from 16:00 - 18:00 at COM1/212

Text book: no text books are required. There will be readings assigned for each lecture. The readings will be available online.

If you are interested in learning more about the topics of Human Computer Interaction you may be interested in the follow books. The best way to obtain these books is either through the library or online. The title links will take you to the Amazon page for the book.

• Mobile Interaction Design. Matt Jones & Gary Marsden. Wiley. 2006.
• The Design of Everyday Things. Donald Norman. Basic Books. 2002.
• The Humane Interface. Jef Raskin. Addison-Wesley Professional. 2000.

Assessment (Note: this is only a rough guideline. Actual accessment may change. We are confirmed that there will be no final exam for this course!)

5% Project proposal

10% Personal assignment

15% Class participation

20% Literature review (6% Oral Presentation, 14% Written Report)

50% Final project (final presentation + prototype + final report)

Project themes (+ example reading)

We will cover a total of 9 themes. Seven of the nine themes are provided below. The rest two themes are open-ended themes suggested by you. We will cover each theme in more details each week.

• Theme 1: Human computational games (You will be working on a human computational game either on Facebook or other platforms)
  
  Luis von Ahn and Laura Dabbish.
  General Techniques for Designing Games with a Purpose.
  Communications of the ACM, August 2008. pp 58-67.

• Theme 2: Eye-free interaction in the mobile environment (An iPod touch and basic software of earPod in Java or Object C will be provided)
  
  Shengdong Zhao, Pierre Dragicevic, Mark H. Chignell, Ravin Balakrishnan, Patrick Baudisch (2007). 
  earPod: Eyes-free Menu Selection with Touch Input and Reactive Audio Feedback.
  Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI). pp. 1395-1404.

Salvucci, D. D. (2009).
Rapid prototyping and evaluation of in-vehicle interfaces.
ACM Transactions on Human-Computer Interaction.

• Theme 3: Human Robot Interaction in the home environment (roomba and related control software in Java will be provided)
  
  Shengdong Zhao, Koichi Nakamura, Kentaro Ishii, Takeo Igarashi (2009). 
  Magic Cards : A Paper Tag Interface for Implicit Robot Control. 
  Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI). pp. 173-182.

• Theme 4: Interaction techniques for multi-touch table (A multi-touch table will be provided)
  SlapWidget: Silicone http://hci.rwth-aachen.de/slap
  

• Theme 5: Sketch-based interface or Pen-based computing (A tabletPC or wacom tablet will be provided)
  http://www.dgp.toronto.edu/~shbae/ilovesketch.htm

Ken Hinckley, Shengdong Zhao, Raman Sarin, Patrick Baudisch, Edward Cutrell, Michael Shilman, Desney Tan (2007). InkSeine: In Situ Search for Active Note Taking. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI). pp. 251-260.

• Theme 6: Intelligent web services

Translating Keyword Commands into Executable Code (0.30MB) Greg Little, and Robert C. Miller. "Translating Keyword Commands into Executable Code." To appear: ACM Conference on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST), 2006.

End-User Programming for the Web (2.91MB) Michael Bolin. End-user Programming for the Web. MEng thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, June 2005.

• Theme 7: Motion-based interaction using Wii-mote, Accelerometers, etc.

Tilt techniques: investigating the dexterity of wrist-based input
Mahfuz Rahman, Sean Gustafson, Pourang Irani, Sriram Subramanian
Pages 1943-1952

• Theme 8: To be decided by you

• Theme 9: To be decided by you

For many of the above projects, the basic software and hardware will be provided, and you only need to extend to it for your idea, so the workload is reduced. This class will be highly interactive, and we will have a lot of discussions both inside and outside of the class.

If you have any questions about this class, please feel free to email me.