Course syllabus
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CIU180 / TIA107 Tangible Interaction
2022 Spring Edition (7.5 credits)
Taught by:
- Course Coordinator and Examiner: Morten Fjeld <fjeld@chalmers.se>
- Teacher: Kivanc Tatar <tatar@chalmers.se>
- Teacher: Georgios Diapoulis <georgios.diapoulis@chalmers.se>
- Teaching assistant: Michael Evanson Ngibuini Ngibuini <evanson@student.chalmers.se>
- Research engineer: Elias Hällqvist <haelias@chalmers.se>
- Teacher until 13th Feb (changes to be PhD-student), we thanks Sjoerd!
- Teacher: Sjoerd Hendriks <henricus@chalmers.se>
Tangible Interaction covers user interfaces where a person interacts with digital information using the physical environment. Tangible user interfaces (TUIs) intensively utilize three-dimensionality, physics, and the human body.
This course introduces concepts, methods, and technologies relevant for tangible user interfaces. Students who pass this course should be able to appreciate, create, and study tangible computing artifacts; at a level where they are able to self-sufficiently contribute to both commercial and academic projects.
Course Design
The course involves the following 5 kinds of activities (i.e. "modules"):
- Lectures
- During scheduled hours
- Labs
- During scheduled hours
- Literature Seminars
- During scheduled hours
- Project
- During scheduled hours, with teacher(s) present for questions etc.
- During scheduled hours, unsupervised (equipment/space reserved)
- On your own time
- Research paper
- On your own time
Teachers will be available to provide guidance outside of scheduled hours, upon request.
Grading
- 60% – Project (Group Work)
- 10pp – Lab participation: pass (5/VG)/fail (2/U)
- 25pp – Project participation: pass (5/VG)/fail (2/U)
- 25pp – Project hand-in reports:
- kick-off: pass (5/VG)/fail (2/U)
- formative research: pass (5/VG)/fail (2/U)
- formative research with prototypes: pass (5/VG)/fail (2/U)
- final prototype and summative research: pass (5/VG)/fail (2/U)
- final product documentation: pass (5/VG)/fail (2/U)
- 40% – Research paper (Individual Work)
- 10pp – Format and language.
- 10pp – Relevance and design justification.
- 10pp – Proper documentation/explanation of design/development/artifact/concept
- 10pp – Evaluation, validation, use cases, and future scenarios
Course Representatives
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