Physical Interaction Design – Spring 2014

SCHEDULE

1st Week

2nd Week

  • Tue 11th Feb 2014 9:00 – 12:00
  • Wed 12th Feb 2014 9:00 – 12:00
    • Mapping
    • Assignment: Prepare a 5 minute presentation about your project for Thursday.
  • Thu 13th Feb 2014 9:00 – 12:00
  • Fri 14th Feb 2014 9:00 – 12:00
    • Project work
    • Workshop possibility

3rd Week – Project work and Tutoring

  • Tue 18th Feb 2014 9:00 – 12:00
  • Wed 19th Feb 2014 9:00 – 12:00
  • Thu 20th Feb 2014 9:00 – 12:00
  • Fri 21st Feb 2014 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 4th 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