ECE 992 Ubiquitous Computing
Fall 2008
Announcements
Here is the syllabus.
Here are some ubicomp-related posts on eceblogger.
Here are ubicomp-related links on my delicious page.
Lectures
| Date | Topic | Reading assignment | Lead | Scribe | Slides |
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| Sep. 2 | Intro | None | Andrew | ||
| Sep. 4 | Paper review guidelines | None | Andrew | Paper review guidelines | |
| Sep. 9 | Ubicomp directions | The Computer for the Twenty-First Century, Mark Weiser The Coming Age of Calm Technology, Mark Weiser and John Seely Brown |
Mike | Ivan | |
| Sep. 11 | Ubicomp directions (and how to talk about them) | Moving on from Weiser's Vision of Calm Computing: Engaging UbiComp Experiences, Yvonne Rogers How to Give a Great Research Talk, John Krumm et al. |
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| Sep. 16 | Ubicomp directions | Pervasive Computing: Vision and Challenges, Satya Disappearing Hardware, Roy Want et al. Three Challenges for Design, Donald Norman |
Ivan | Nemanja | |
| Sep. 18 | Ubicomp directions | Yesterday's Tomorrows: Notes on Ubiquitous Computing's Dominant Vision, Genevieve Bell and Paul Dourish |
Nemanja | Ken | |
| Sep. 23 | Ubicomp directions | Everyware - video of talk at Keio University, 2006 (also available in eight parts on YouTube, here is part 1), Adam Greenfield |
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| Sep. 25 | HCI | Tap Input as an Embedded Interaction Method for Mobile Devices, Sami Ronkainen et al. LucidTouch: A See-Through Mobile Device, D. Wigdor et al. Driving Performance while Engaged in MP-3 Player Interaction: Effects of Practice and Task Difficulty on PRT and Eye Movements, Susan Chisholm et al. |
Ken | Oszkar | |
| Sep. 30 | Project proposals | Motion Based Identification on Resource Constrained Systems, Ken Mikelinich TouchKit Setup and Usability Study, Oskar Palinko Combining Handheld Computers and Public Displays, Ivan Elhart, Nemanja Memarovic, Michael A. Farrar |
Mike, Ivan, Nemanja, Ken, Oszkar | ||
| Oct. 2 | HCI | Gaze-Enhanced Scrolling Techniques, Manu Kumar and Terry Winograd Evaluating User Interface Systems Research, Dan Olsen Spoken Words: Activating Text-To-Speech through Eye Closure, Fabian Hemmert et al. |
Oszkar | Mike | |
| Oct. 7 | HCI | Multi-User Interaction using Handheld Projectors, Xiang Cao et al. Shadow Reaching: A New Perspective on Interaction for Large Displays, Garth Shoemaker et al. Design of Human-Map System Interaction, Thomas Porathe and Johannes Prison |
Mike | Ivan | |
| Oct. 9 | HCI | Search Vox: Leveraging Multimodal Refinement and Partial Knowledge for Mobile Voice Search, Tim Paek et al. It's Mine, Don't Touch!: interactions at a large multi-touch display in a city centre, Peter Peltonen et al. |
Ivan | Nemanja | |
| Oct. 14 | HCI | Interacting with the Computer using Gaze Gestures, Heiko Drewes and Albrecht Schmidt Shake2Talk: Multimodal Messaging for Interpersonal Communication, Lorna Brown and John Williamson |
Nemanja | Ken | |
| Oct. 16 | HCI | When design just isn't enough: the unanticipated challenges of the real world for large collaborative displays, Elaine Huang et al. BlindSight: eyes-free access to mobile phones, K. Li et al. (video and slides also available here) |
Ken | Oszkar | |
| Oct. 21 | No class - Visit an exhibit, read a blog post and work on literature review and project. |
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| Oct. 23 | Assignment progress review |
Discuss Tuesday activities, literature reviews, projects | |||
| Oct. 28 | No class - work on literature review and project |
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| Oct. 30 | No class - work on literature review and project |
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| Nov. 4 | Context | Towards a Better Understanding of Context and Context-Awareness, Anind Dey and Gregory Abowd | Ivan | Nemanja | |
| Nov. 6 | Context | Location-Aware Computing Comes of Age, Mike Hazas, et al. Ask Not for Whom the Cell Phone Tolls: Some Problems with the Notion of Context-Aware Computing, Thomas Erickson WhereWare, Eric Pfeiffer |
Nemanja | Ken | |
| Nov. 11 | No class |
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| Nov. 13 | No class |
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| Nov. 18 | Context/ |
Why We Tag: Motivations for Annotation in Mobile and Online Media, Morgan Ames and Mor Naaman Flickr and Public Image-Sharing: Distant Closeness and Photo Exhibition, Nancy Van House Social Uses of Digital Imagery with a Focus on Smart Phones Applicability, Lorant Farkas et al. |
Mike | Ivan | |
| Nov. 20 | Context/ Photos |
The Ubiquitous Camera: An In-depth Study of Camera Phone Use, Tim Kindberg et al. Location and Photos - A Match Made in Heaven... or Hell?, Mor Naaman and Mirjana Spasojevic |
Nemanja | Mike | |
| Nov. 25 | No class |
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| Nov. 27 | No class - Thanksgiving Holiday |
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| Dec. 2 | Literature review discussions in groups |
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| Dec. 4 | HCI - the future | Being Human (HCI in the Year 2020), Editors: Richard Harper, Tom Rodden, Yvonne Rogers and Abigail Sellen | Oszkar | Mike | |
| Dec. 9 | Literature review presentations |
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| Dec. 11 | Project presentations |
Ken |
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