SCHEDULE
1st Week
- Tue 1st Oct 2013 9:00 – 12:00
- No lecture on Tuesday 1.10.2013
- Assignment: Read chapters 1 and 2 from Chris Chrawford – The Art of Interactive Design.
- Wed 2nd Oct 2013 9:00 – 12:00
- Thu 3rd Oct 2013 9:00 – 12:00
- Fri 4th Oct 2013 9:00 – 13:00
- Natural user interfaces
- Embedded linux
- Assignment: Return a project proposal on Tuesday 8.10.2013
- Guidelines for the final project and proposal
2nd Week
- Tue 8th Oct 2013 9:00 – 12:00
- Motors & Actuators
- Return a Project Proposal (1 A4)
- Wed 9th Oct 2013 9:00 – 12:00
- Mapping
- Assignment: Prepare a 5 minute presentation about your project for Thursday.
- Thu 10th Oct 2013 9:00 – 13:00
- Capacitive sensing
- Project discussion & 5-minute presentations.
- Fri 11th Oct 2013 9:00 – 12:00
- Raspberry Pi II
- Raspberry Pi and Arduino
- Standalone operation
- Raspberry Pi II
3rd Week – Project work and Tutoring
- Tue 15th Oct 2013 9:00 – 12:00
- Wed 16th Oct 2013 9:00 – 12:00
- Thu 17th Oct 2013 9:00 – 12:00
- Fri 18th Oct 2013 9:00 – 12:00
- Project Presentations starting at 11.00
LINKS & MATERIALS
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DESCRIPTION
Physical Interaction Design course aims to familiarize students with practices that provide designing new ways of interactions through digital environments. This course makes it possible for students to experience experimental interaction with sensor technologies and introduces some of the fundamental conceptual issues confronted by interaction designers working in the areas of tangible HCI.
PID course introduces physical interaction design in New Media works with microcontroller and sensor technologies. The course explores multimodal interaction practices where they adapt physical interaction to daily life applications and contemporary art works. The course also introduces artistic strategies, structures and methodologies for the creation of interactive installations, physical media/image/sound projects and for the creation of experimental musical instruments. Course will be taught using the Pure Data and Arduino open-source environments, accompanied by short readings. Physical Interaction Design course is a project-based course. At the end of the course, students will submit and present their projects.
GRADING
- 20% class participation
- 10% assignments
- 70% final project
LOCATION:
Paja (Media Lab 3rd Floor)
SUGGESTED READINGS:
- Designing for Interaction: Creating Innovative applications and Devices by Dan Saffer
- The Resonant Interface: HCI Foundations for Interaction Design by Steven Heim
- Handmade Electronic Music: The art of Hardware Hacking by Nicolas Collins
- Where the Action Is: The Foundations of Embodied Interaction by Paul Dourish