Seminar: Post-Desktop User Interfaces

Course information:

• Aug 5: The milestones are online.
• Jul 31: Introduction slides are available here (PDF, 8.71 Mb)
• Jul 31: The assignment of topics is online (see below).
• Jul 31: The dates for the literature review course are only. See below.
• Jul 30: The final list of topics is online. Just click here.
• Jul 23: The kick-off meeting takes place on July 31, 11am, in room 2010

Discussion forum

Milestones

Team	Literature Review	Report Outline	First Report Submission	Slides	Camera-ready slides	Presentation	Final Report Submission
Astrid Sturm, Andreas Hüttig	21.08. 9pm	04.09. 10pm	25.09. 12pm	09.10. 11pm	16.10. 12pm	23.10. 3:45pm	06.11. 12pm
Denise Eraßme, Florian Fenger	28.08. 9pm	11.09. 10pm	02.10. 12pm	16.10. 11pm	23.10. 12pm	30.10. 3:45pm	13.11. 12pm
Torsten Palm, Nitesh Goyal	04.09. 9pm	18.09. 10pm	09.10. 12pm	23.10. 11pm	30.10. 12pm	06.11. 3:45pm	20.11. 12pm
Mirko Romstadt, Markus Kaußen	11.09. 9pm	25.09. 10pm	16.10. 12pm	30.10. 11pm	06.11. 12pm	13.11. 3:45pm	27.11. 12pm
Mareike Bültmann, Hao Wu	18.09. 9pm	02.10. 10pm	23.10. 12pm	06.11. 11pm	13.11. 12pm	20.11. 3:45pm	04.12. 12pm
Lukas Spychalski, Claas Digmayer	25.09. 9pm	09.10. 10pm	30.10. 12pm	13.11. 11pm	20.11. 12pm	27.11. 3:45pm	11.12. 12pm
Christian Corsten, Michael Lottko	02.10. 9pm	16.10. 10pm	06.11. 12pm	20.11. 11pm	27.11. 12pm	04.12. 3:45pm	18.12. 12pm
Sebastian Meßink, Pablo Hunger	09.10. 9pm	23.10. 10pm	13.11. 12pm	27.11. 11pm	04.12. 12pm	11.12. 3:45pm	25.12. 12pm
Mariana Bocoi, Alexandru Popa	16.10. 9pm	30.10. 10pm	20.11. 12pm	04.12. 11pm	11.12. 12pm	18.12. 3:45pm	01.01. 12pm
Vadi Efe, Esra Yalcin	06.11. 9pm	20.11. 10pm	11.12. 12pm	25.12. 11pm	01.01. 12pm	08.01. 3:45pm	22.01. 12pm
Julian Krenge, Vina Wibowo	13.11. 9pm	27.11. 10pm	18.12. 12pm	01.01. 11pm	08.01. 12pm	15.01. 3:45pm	29.01. 12pm
Christopher Schleiden, Timo Heinrich	20.11. 9pm	04.12. 10pm	25.12. 12pm	08.01. 11pm	15.01. 12pm	22.01. 3:45pm	05.02. 12pm
Florian Bade, André Goliath	27.11. 9pm	11.12. 10pm	01.01. 12pm	15.01. 11pm	22.01. 12pm	29.01. 3:45pm	12.02. 12pm
Rajveer Saini, Bernhard Spielmann	04.12. 9pm	18.12. 10pm	08.01. 12pm	22.01. 11pm	29.01. 12pm	05.02. 3:45pm	19.02. 12pm

Literature Review Courses

• Mon, August 4, 12pm (English)
  • Denise Eraßme
  • Nitesh Goyal
  • Torsten Palm
  • Vina Wibowo
• Wed, August 6, 5pm (German)
  • Mareike Bültmann
  • Claas Digmayer
  • Markus Kaußen
  • Mirko Romstadt
• Wed, August 13, 11am (English)
  • Mariana Bocoi
  • Florian Fenger
  • Pablo Hunger
  • Sebastian Meßink
  • Alexandru Popa

Course requirements:

Please agree to the Ethical Guidelines for the Authoring of Academic Work (Ethische Richtlinien für das Verfassen wissenschaftlicher Arbeiten) by signing the Declaration of Compliance (Erklärung zur Seminararbeit). Return the signed declaration on the first day of the seminar meeting.

The RWTH CS library offers a course to literature review (Literaturrecherche für Informatiker). This course is mandatory for all students to participate in our seminar.

Topics

Breathing Interfaces - Astrid Sturm, Andreas Hüttig (23.10.2008)

• Kim, S., Kim, H., Lee, B., Nam, T., and Lee, W. 2008. Inflatable mouse: volume-adjustable mouse with air-pressure-sensitive input and haptic feedback. In Proceeding of the Twenty-Sixth Annual SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Florence, Italy, April 05 - 10, 2008). CHI '08. ACM, New York, NY, 211-224.
• Patel, S. N. and Abowd, G. D. 2007. Blui: low-cost localized blowable user interfaces. In Proceedings of the 20th Annual ACM Symposium on User interface Software and Technology (Newport, Rhode Island, USA, October 07 - 10, 2007). UIST '07. ACM, New York, NY, 217-220.

Cognition, Perception, and Memory - Denise Eraßme, Florian Fenger (30.10.2008)

• Wu, M., Birnholtz, J., Richards, B., Baecker, R., and Massimi, M. 2008. Collaborating to remember: a distributed cognition account of families coping with memory impairments. In Proceeding of the Twenty-Sixth Annual SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Florence, Italy, April 05 - 10, 2008). CHI '08. ACM, New York, NY, 825-834.
• Grimes, D., Tan, D. S., Hudson, S. E., Shenoy, P., and Rao, R. P. 2008. Feasibility and pragmatics of classifying working memory load with an electroencephalograph. In Proceeding of the Twenty-Sixth Annual SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Florence, Italy, April 05 - 10, 2008). CHI '08. ACM, New York, NY, 835-844.
• Shenoy, P. and Tan, D. S. 2008. Human-aided computing: utilizing implicit human processing to classify images. In Proceeding of the Twenty-Sixth Annual SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Florence, Italy, April 05 - 10, 2008). CHI '08. ACM, New York, NY, 845-854.

Collaborative User Interfaces - Torsten Palm, Nitesh Goyal (06.11.2008)

• Munteanu, C., Baecker, R., and Penn, G. 2008. Collaborative editing for improved usefulness and usability of transcript-enhanced webcasts. In Proceeding of the Twenty-Sixth Annual SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Florence, Italy, April 05 - 10, 2008). CHI '08. ACM, New York, NY, 373-382.
• Grossman, T. and Balakrishnan, R. 2008. Collaborative interaction with volumetric displays. In Proceeding of the Twenty-Sixth Annual SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Florence, Italy, April 05 - 10, 2008). CHI '08. ACM, New York, NY, 383-392.
• Plimmer, B., Crossan, A., Brewster, S. A., and Blagojevic, R. 2008. Multimodal collaborative handwriting training for visually-impaired people. In Proceeding of the Twenty-Sixth Annual SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Florence, Italy, April 05 - 10, 2008). CHI '08. ACM, New York, NY, 393-402.

Search Interfaces - Mirko Romstadt, Markus Kaußen (13.11.2008)

• Morris, M. R. and Horvitz, E. 2007. SearchTogether: an interface for collaborative web search. In Proceedings of the 20th Annual ACM Symposium on User interface Software and Technology (Newport, Rhode Island, USA, October 07 - 10, 2007). UIST '07. ACM, New York, NY, 3-12.
• Teevan, J. 2007. The re:search engine: simultaneous support for finding and re-finding. In Proceedings of the 20th Annual ACM Symposium on User interface Software and Technology (Newport, Rhode Island, USA, October 07 - 10, 2007). UIST '07. ACM, New York, NY, 23-32.
• Chau, D., Myers, B., and Faulring, A. 2008. What to do when search fails: finding information by association. In Proceeding of the Twenty-Sixth Annual SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Florence, Italy, April 05 - 10, 2008). CHI '08. ACM, New York, NY, 999-1008.

Exertion Interfaces - Mareike Bültmann, Hao Wu (20.11.2008)

• Mueller, F., Agamanolis, S., and Picard, R. 2003. Exertion interfaces: sports over a distance for social bonding and fun. InProceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, USA, April 05 - 10, 2003). CHI '03. ACM, New York, NY, 561-568.
• Playing for Real: Video Games and Stories for Health-Related Behavior Change American Journal of Preventive Medicine, Volume 34, Issue 1, January 2008, Pages 74-82.e10 Tom Baranowski, Richard Buday, Debbe I. Thompson, Janice Baranowski
• Sinclair, J., Hingston, P., and Masek, M. 2007. Considerations for the design of exergames. In Proceedings of the 5th international Conference on Computer Graphics and interactive Techniques in Australia and Southeast Asia (Perth, Australia, December 01 - 04, 2007). GRAPHITE '07. ACM, New York, NY, 289-295.
• http://exertioninterfaces.com/
• http://www.gamesforhealth.org/downloads/gfh-2008-schedule.pdf
• http://www.newconceptgaming.com/

Multiple Displays - Lukas Spychalski, Claas Digmayer (27.11.2008)

• Dearman, D. and Pierce, J. S. 2008. It's on my other computer!: computing with multiple devices. In Proceeding of the Twenty-Sixth Annual SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Florence, Italy, April 05 - 10, 2008). CHI '08. ACM, New York, NY, 767-776.
• Nacenta, M. A., Mandryk, R. L., and Gutwin, C. 2008. Targeting across displayless space. In Proceeding of the Twenty-Sixth Annual SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Florence, Italy, April 05 - 10, 2008). CHI '08. ACM, New York, NY, 777-786.
• Gustafson, S., Baudisch, P., Gutwin, C., and Irani, P. 2008. Wedge: clutter-free visualization of off-screen locations. In Proceeding of the Twenty-Sixth Annual SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Florence, Italy, April 05 - 10, 2008). CHI '08. ACM, New York, NY, 787-796.

Multitouch and Surface Computing - Christian Corsten, Michael Lottko (04.12.2008)

• Peltonen, P., Kurvinen, E., Salovaara, A., Jacucci, G., Ilmonen, T., Evans, J., Oulasvirta, A., and Saarikko, P. 2008. It's Mine, Don't Touch!: interactions at a large multi-touch display in a city centre. In Proceeding of the Twenty-Sixth Annual SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Florence, Italy, April 05 - 10, 2008). CHI '08. ACM, New York, NY, 1285-1294.
• Moscovich, T. and Hughes, J. F. 2008. Indirect mappings of multi-touch input using one and two hands. In Proceeding of the Twenty-Sixth Annual SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Florence, Italy, April 05 - 10, 2008). CHI '08. ACM, New York, NY, 1275-1284.
• Murray-Smith, R., Williamson, J., Hughes, S., and Quaade, T. 2008. Stane: synthesized surfaces for tactile input. In Proceeding of the Twenty-Sixth Annual SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Florence, Italy, April 05 - 10, 2008). CHI '08. ACM, New York, NY, 1299-1302.

Musical Interfaces - Sebastian Meßink, Pablo Hunger (11.12.2008)

• Simon, I., Morris, D., and Basu, S. 2008. MySong: automatic accompaniment generation for vocal melodies. In Proceeding of the Twenty-Sixth Annual SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Florence, Italy, April 05 - 10, 2008). CHI '08. ACM, New York, NY, 725-734.
• Merrill, D., Raffle, H., and Aimi, R. 2008. The sound of touch: physical manipulation of digital sound. In Proceeding of the Twenty-Sixth Annual SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Florence, Italy, April 05 - 10, 2008). CHI '08. ACM, New York, NY, 739-742.
• Akiyama, Y. and Oore, S. 2008. PlaceAndPlay: a digital tool for children to create and record music. In Proceeding of the Twenty-Sixth Annual SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Florence, Italy, April 05 - 10, 2008). CHI '08. ACM, New York, NY, 735-738.

Novel Displays and Interaction - Mariana Bocoi, Alexandru Popa (18.12.2008)

• Rydarowski, A., Samanci, O., and Mazalek, A. 2008. Murmur: kinetic relief sculpture, multi-sensory display, listening machine. In Proceedings of the 2nd international Conference on Tangible and Embedded interaction (Bonn, Germany, February 18 - 20, 2008). TEI '08. ACM, New York, NY, 231-238.
• Loviscach, J. 2007. Two-finger input with a standard touch screen. In Proceedings of the 20th Annual ACM Symposium on User interface Software and Technology (Newport, Rhode Island, USA, October 07 - 10, 2007). UIST '07. ACM, New York, NY, 169-172.
• Izadi, S., Hodges, S., Butler, A., Rrustemi, A., and Buxton, B. 2007. ThinSight: integrated optical multi-touch sensing through thin form-factor displays. In Proceedings of the 2007 Workshop on Emerging Displays Technologies: Images and Beyond: the Future of Displays and interacton (San Diego, California, August 04 - 04, 2007). EDT '07, vol. 252. ACM, New York, NY, 6.
• Nacenta, M. A., Sakurai, S., Yamaguchi, T., Miki, Y., Itoh, Y., Kitamura, Y., Subramanian, S., and Gutwin, C. 2007. E-conic: a perspective-aware interface for multi-display environments. In Proceedings of the 20th Annual ACM Symposium on User interface Software and Technology (Newport, Rhode Island, USA, October 07 - 10, 2007). UIST '07. ACM, New York, NY, 279-288.

Online Social Networks - Vadi Efe, Esra Yalcin (08.01.2009)

• Guy, I., Jacovi, M., Shahar, E., Meshulam, N., Soroka, V., and Farrell, S. 2008. Harvesting with SONAR: the value of aggregating social network information. In Proceeding of the Twenty-Sixth Annual SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Florence, Italy, April 05 - 10, 2008). CHI '08. ACM, New York, NY, 1017-1026.
• Joinson, A. N. 2008. Looking at, looking up or keeping up with people?: motives and use of facebook. In Proceeding of the Twenty-Sixth Annual SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Florence, Italy, April 05 - 10, 2008). CHI '08. ACM, New York, NY, 1027-1036.
• Thom-Santelli, J., Muller, M. J., and Millen, D. R. 2008. Social tagging roles: publishers, evangelists, leaders. In Proceeding of the Twenty-Sixth Annual SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Florence, Italy, April 05 - 10, 2008). CHI '08. ACM, New York, NY, 1041-1044.

Organic Interfaces - Julian Krenge, Vina Wibowo (15.01.2009)

• Co, E. and Pashenkov, N. 2008. Emerging display technologies for organic user interfaces. Commun. ACM 51, 6 (Jun. 2008), 45-47.
• Holman, D. and Vertegaal, R. 2008. Organic user interfaces: designing computers in any way, shape, or form. Commun. ACM 51, 6 (Jun. 2008), 48-55.
• Parkes, A., Poupyrev, I., and Ishii, H. 2008. Designing kinetic interactions for organic user interfaces. Commun. ACM 51, 6 (Jun. 2008), 58-65.

Gaming - Christopher Schleiden, Timo Heinrich (22.01.2009)

• Pinelle, D., Wong, N., and Stach, T. 2008. Heuristic evaluation for games: usability principles for video game design. In Proceeding of the Twenty-Sixth Annual SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Florence, Italy, April 05 - 10, 2008). CHI '08. ACM, New York, NY, 1453-1462.
• Szentgyorgyi, C., Terry, M., and Lank, E. 2008. Renegade gaming: practices surrounding social use of the Nintendo DS handheld gaming system. In Proceeding of the Twenty-Sixth Annual SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Florence, Italy, April 05 - 10, 2008). CHI '08. ACM, New York, NY, 1463-1472.
• Grammenos, D. 2008. Game over: learning by dying. In Proceeding of the Twenty-Sixth Annual SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Florence, Italy, April 05 - 10, 2008). CHI '08. ACM, New York, NY, 1443-1452.

Tabletops in the Real World - Florian Bade, André Goliath (29.01.2009)

• Xianhang Zhang; Takatsuka, M., "Put That There NOW: Group Dynamics of Tabletop Interaction under Time Pressure," Horizontal Interactive Human-Computer Systems, 2007. TABLETOP '07. Second Annual IEEE International Workshop on , vol., no., pp.37-43, 10-12 Oct. 2007
• Wigdor, D.; Perm, G.; Ryall, K.; Esenther, A.; Chia Shen, "Living with a Tabletop: Analysis and Observations of Long Term Office Use of a Multi-Touch Table," Horizontal Interactive Human-Computer Systems, 2007. TABLETOP '07. Second Annual IEEE International Workshop on , vol., no., pp.60-67, 10-12 Oct. 2007
• Mazalek, A.; Reynolds, M.; Davenport, G., "The TViews Table in the Home," Horizontal Interactive Human-Computer Systems, 2007. TABLETOP '07. Second Annual IEEE International Workshop on , vol., no., pp.52-59, 10-12 Oct. 2007
• Müller-Tomfelde, C. and Schremmer, C. 2008. Touchers and mousers: commonalities and differences in co-located collaboration with multiple input devices. In Proceeding of the Twenty-Sixth Annual SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Florence, Italy, April 05 - 10, 2008). CHI '08. ACM, New York, NY, 1149-1152.

Video Navigation and Capture - Rajveer Saini, Bernhard Spielmann (05.02.2009)

• Ranjan, A., Birnholtz, J., and Balakrishnan, R. 2008. Improving meeting capture by applying television production principles with audio and motion detection. In Proceeding of the Twenty-Sixth Annual SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Florence, Italy, April 05 - 10, 2008). CHI '08. ACM, New York, NY, 227-236.
• Dragicevic, P., Ramos, G., Bibliowitcz, J., Nowrouzezahrai, D., Balakrishnan, R., and Singh, K. 2008. Video browsing by direct manipulation. In Proceeding of the Twenty-Sixth Annual SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Florence, Italy, April 05 - 10, 2008). CHI '08. ACM, New York, NY, 237-246.
• Karrer, T., Weiss, M., Lee, E., and Borcers, J. 2008. DRAGON: a direct manipulation interface for frame-accurate in-scene video navigation. In Proceeding of the Twenty-Sixth Annual SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Florence, Italy, April 05 - 10, 2008). CHI '08. ACM, New York, NY, 247-250.

Allocation:

Field of study:

• Informatik (D)/Hauptstudium/Praktische Informatik
• Media Informatics (M.Sc.)/Multimediabenutzung und -wirkung/in Aachen
• Software Systems Engineering (M.Sc.)/Seminar

Number SWS: 2
ECTS Credits: 4
The seminar will be held in English.

Official registration: The registration deadline has passed for this seminar. All spots have been assigned. The date for the kick-off meeting will be announced soon.

Course Aim:

After having achieved a general overview of the area of Human-Computer Interaction, this seminar will provide students with an idea of the current research topics that are being tackled in the research community. After the seminar, students will have some in-depth knowledge about one current area of HCI, and will have heard talks about numerous others. The seminar also provides students with an opportunity to refine their scientific writing and presentation skills, and since the topics are assigned to groups of two students each, it is also another chance to learn how to work efficiently as a team.

Content:

The seminar discusses current trends in Media Computing and Human-Computer Interaction, with a focus on user interfaces that go beyond the desktop metaphor. Topics include:

• speech interfaces
• pen-based interaction
• music interfaces
• haptic devices
• interfaces for children
• interaction with large displays
• and others...

Activity Confirmation:

Successful completion of group reports and presentations on assigned topics, using the references provided as a starting point.

Lecturers:

• Jan Borchers
• Malte Weiss

Times:

Thu

15:45-17:15

room 2010

Additional Information:

• How NOT To Use Powerpoint By Comedian Don McMillan
• Hints on how to prepare and present a seminar topic
• Jan's presentation guidelines
• Polish your presentations (Macworld.com)
• The Elements of Style improve your writing style.
• Ethics Policy for Courses Taught at i10
• CHI conference proceedings LaTeX template

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