CSE 392 SYLLABUS

Week 1
Course Orientation
Introduction to Physical Computing, Tangible Interfaces, and Multimodal Interfaces

Homework: Download text; review course web site.

Recitation: Showcase of student projects

Week 2
Introduction to Computer-Human Interaction

Homework: Chapters 1 & 2 of text.

Week 3
Introduction to Macromedia Director MX and Lingo

Homework: Chapter 3 of text.

Week 4
Controlling objects with Lingo and Simple logic

Homework: Chapter 4 of text.

Week 5
File I/O with Lingo

Homework: Chapter 5 of text.

Week 6
Quiz and game programming in Lingo

Homework: Chapter 6 of text.

Week 7
Computer Vision

Homework: TICLE (Tangible Interface for Collaborative Learning Environments) SIGGRAPH paper

Recitation: Setting up a vision interface

Week 8
Virtual Reality

Homework: Chapter 7 of text.

Week 9
Mobile Computing

Week 10
Sensors

Homework: FingerSpell Journal of Educational Technology paper

Recitation: Setting up a sensor interface

Week 11
GPS/GIS

Recitation: Creating a multimedia GPS application

Week 12
Smart Rooms

Week 13
Speech Recognition and Speech Synthesis

Homework: iSign IASTED paper

Recitation: Scripting speech with Applescript

Week 14
Deploying and Field Testing

Week 15

Final team project presentations in class. Submit source, executable, and documentation on CD.