Embodied Interaction: Multimodal, Tangible and Collaborative

Master of Science in Informatics at Grenoble - Year 2

Ubiquitous and Interactive Systems Option

Official website

Last updated July 2, 2015

Contact

Céline Coutrix

Celine dot Coutrix at imag dot fr

Teachers

Céline Coutrix Researcher CNRS

Yann Laurillau Lecturer UPMF

Laurence Nigay Professor UJF

Credits

6 ECTS – 36 hours

Objective

This course is dedicated to the new generation of interactive technologies that are part of our everyday life: ubiquitous computing. In this booming domain, the need for methods and models for designing useful and useable interactive technologies is crucial. The aim of this course is to explore the aspects of design of this new generation of interactive technologies, to understand the challenges and to review the new interaction paradigms including multimodal, tangible and collaborative interaction.

Outline

1. Multimodal systems (9 hours)
1. Definitions
2. Challenges
3. Design spaces
2. Tangible Interaction (15 hours)
1. Definition
2. History
3. Benefits
4. Limitations and research areas
5. Practical work: Prototyping a tangible object with Arduino
3. Collaborative systems (9 hours)
1. CSCW Principles
2. Building groupware applications:
3. Social dimensions for the design of groupware
4. Ergonomic design and evaluation of groupware
5. Software design of groupware
6. Pervasive groupware: interactive surfaces, multimodality, tangible & mobile interaction

Planning 2015-2016

Time	Room	Topic	Teacher
		Multimodal systems	Laurence Nigay
		Multimodal systems	Laurence Nigay
		Multimodal systems	Laurence Nigay
		Tangible Interaction	Céline Coutrix
		Tangible Interaction	Céline Coutrix
		Tangible Interaction	Céline Coutrix
		Tangible Interaction	Céline Coutrix
		Tangible Interaction	Céline Coutrix
		Collaborative systems	Yann Laurillau
		Collaborative systems	Yann Laurillau
		Collaborative systems	Yann Laurillau
		Oral exam	Céline Coutrix
		Written exam

ADE calendar (Trainees>Groups>Masters>M2R MoSIG>option UIS)

Internships

Presentation of the EHCI (Engineering Human-Computer Interaction) team

Description of the internships proposed by EHCI

Assessment

The exam consists of two parts on separate days.

1. Two-hour written exam

The written exam is worth 70% of the final grade.

The written exam covers literally every topic taught in the course.

2. Oral exam

The oral exam is worth 30% of the final grade.

Each student selects a paper in the list below. Two students cannot choose the same paper. Students agree together on the papers and email the teacher (Celine Coutrix) at the latest in November.

List of papers for the oral exam

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The student will present the paper. The format of the presentation will be a 20 to 25 minutes presentation, followed by 5 to 10 minutes of questions and discussion. Some elements of the content of the presentation:

· Give the context for the research, stating why it is interesting and relevant.

· Identify the problem or challenge as it currently exists.

· Give an overview of the contents of the entire paper.

· Identify, describe, cite related work → You must do your own research about the related work.

· Describe, analyze and evaluate the adopted approach to the problem.

· State the key results

· Relate the concepts with the course

Remark: if you use any information (figures, slides, reports, thesis, etc), found on the Web you must cite your sources.

The last slide of your presentation should include a list of references: list of papers, reports, thesis that you studied.

Support can be provided if needed by the teachers assigned to each paper (answer questions, provide with related articles in pdf format)