CIS 607: Advanced Human-Computer Interaction Seminar

Course Syllabus

October 2, 2003

Fall 2003: Th 10:00-11:20 am, 200 Deschutes

Prerequisites: CIS 543 User Interfaces, or instructor’s permission.

Mailing alias is “cis607hci” Website is http://www.cs.uoregon.edu/classes/cis607hci/

Description: This course is intended as an advanced seminar in human-computer interaction. The topic for this term will be tangible user interfaces and interaction.

Seminar	Date	Topic	Reading	Due at beginning of Class
1	10/2	Introduction to TUI
2	10/9	Overview of TUI	Ishii & Ullmer, “Tangible bits: towards seamless interfaces between people, bits and atoms” CHI’97	Paper on reading available from ACM Portal <http://portal.acm.org/portal.cfm>
3	10/16	Collaboration	Ishii, Kobayashi & Grudin “Integration of Inter-Personal Space and Shared Workspace: ClearBoard Design and Experiments” CSCW’92	Paper on reading available from ACM Portal
4	10/23	Physical icons	Fitzmaurice, Ishii, & Buxton, “Bricks: Laying the Foundations for Graspable User Interfaces”CHI’95	Paper on reading available from ACM Portal
5	10/30	Physical icons	Greenberg & Boyle “Customizable Physical Interfaces for Interacting with Conventional Applications” UIST’02	Paper on reading available from ACM Portal
6	11/6	Collaboration	Brave, Ishii & Dahley “TangibleInterfaces for Remote Collaboration and Communication”CSCW ’98	Paper on reading available from ACM Portal
7	11/13	Collaboration	Moran, Saund, van Melle,Gujar, Fishkin, & Harrison “Design and Technology for Collaborage: Collaborative Collages of Information on Physical Walls” UIST’99	Paper on reading available from ACM Portal
8	11/20	Collaboration	Everitt, Klemmer, Lee & Landay “Two Worlds Apart: Bridging the Gap Between Physical and Virtual Media for Distributed Design Collaboration” CHI’03	Paper on reading available from ACM Portal
9	12/4	TUI theory	Calvillo-Gámez, Leland, Shaer, & Jacob “The TAC paradigm: unified conceptual framework to represent Tangible User Interfaces” Latin American CHI’03	Paper on reading available from ACM Portal
10	Finals	There will be no class meeting

Course Requirements:

1. You are expected to attend every seminar.
2. You are expected to read each paper before the seminar.
3. You are expected to participate in the discussion during the seminar.
4. You are expected to write eight short (two pages) papers on specific research readings. Note, the short papers must be handed in BEFORE we discuss the reading.
5. You are expected to facilitate at least one seminar.

Grading:

Attendance and discussion 10% If you do not participate in the discussion, you may not pass!

Papers (8) 80%

Leading seminar 10%

You must get a B- in the class to get a pass as a graduate student.