Physical Interaction Design – Winter 2011

Description

Physical Interaction Design course aims to familiarize students with practices that provide designing new ways of interactions between humans through digital environments. This course makes it possible for students to experience experimental interaction with sensor technologies where the data is achieved throughout the participant’s natural expressive gestures and processed through computer.

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 mainly using the Pure Data and Arduino open-source environments.

Final Project

Physical Interaction Design course is a project-based course. At the end of the course, students will submit and present their own physical interaction projects.

Guidelines for the final project.

Grading

  • 20% class participation
  • 10% assignments
  • 70% final project

Location:

Paja (Media Lab 3rd Floor)

Schedule:

Week 1 (Sensing The World)

Week 2 (Mapping, turning real world data into something useful)

Week 3 (Project Work and Tutoring)

  • 7th Dec 2011 9:00 – 13:00
  • 8th Dec 2011 9:00 – 13:00
  • 9th Dec 2011 9:00 – 13:00
    • Final project presentations

Recommended Course Books

  • Designing for Interaction: Creating Innovative applications and Devices
    by Dan Saffer
  • Designing Sound by Andy Farnell
  • Machine Musicianship by Robert Rowe
  • Handmade Electronic Music: The art of Hardware Hacking
    by Nicolas Collins

List of Students:

  • Päivärinne Aki
  • Nikulin Aleksander
  • Lazzari Louise
  • Lehtonen Paula
  • Koivula Janne
  • Wikström Valtteri
  • Koskinen Tommi
  • Ihalainen Kirsi
  • Acosta Jairo
  • Duarte Juan
  • Lepistö Markus
  • Bar-Sheshet Ran
  • Best-Dunkley Andrew