Comp 4020 - HCI II

Comp 4020 - Human-Computer Interaction II

Advanced issues in the field of Human-computer interaction. Topics will be selected from current research and development in the field of HCI.

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Announcements

March 20^th: Check the presentation assignments to see when you present your paper in class.
March 15^th: The project description is now online.
March 4^th: A3 is now available.
February 8^th: Midterm will be 50 mins in class on February 13th.
February 8^th: A2 is now available.
January 11^th: A1 is now available.
January 7^th: Groups of 3 members need to be formed by Wednesday January 16^th.

Lecture Schedule and Notes (Subject to minor changes)

	Monday	Wednesday	Friday
Week 1: Jan 7^nd, 9^th, 11^th		Introduction (pdf)	Experimental Design A1 handed out
Week 2: Jan 14^th, 16^th, 18^th	Experimental Design (pdf)	Data Analysis	Data Analysis
Week 3: Jan 21^st, 23^th, 25^th	Tutorial: Android Dev (pdf)	Input Systems	Tutorial: Graphics (pdf)
Week 4: Jan 28^th, 30^th Feb 1^st	Input Systems (pdf)	Input Systems	Sketching & Design A1 due
Week 5: Feb 4^th, 6^th, 8^th	Sketching & Design (pdf)	Sketching & Design	Sketching & Design: Video A2 handed out
Week 6: Feb 11^th, 13^th, 15^th	Input Occlusion (pdf)	Test #1 in class	Input Occlusion: Design
Week 7: Feb 18^th, 20^th, 22^nd	Mid-term break	Mid-term break	Mid-term break
Week 8: Feb 25^th, 27^th Mar 1^st	One-Handed Use (pdf)	One-Handed Use: Design A2 due	Limited Display (pdf) A3 handed out
Week 9: Mar 4^th, 6^th, 8^th	Limited Display: Design	Limited Input (pdf)	Limited Input: Design
Week 10: Mar 11^th, 13^th, 15^th	Text-entry (pdf)	Text-entry	Text-entry: Design A3 due
Week 11: Mar 18^th, 20^th, 22^nd	Visualization (pdf)	Visualization	Visualization: Design
Week 12: Mar 25^th, 27^th, 29^th	Groups 1 & 2 G1 G2	Groups 3 & 4 G3 G4	No class (Good Friday)
Week 13: Apr 1^st, 3^rd, 5^th	Groups 5 & 6 G5 G6	Groups 7 & 8 G5 G6	Groups 9 & 10 Project due
Week 14: Apr 8^th, 10^th, 12^th	Groups 11 & 12 + Review	Test #2 in class

Test materials

Test #1 will be on Wednesday February 13^th.
Test #2 will be on Wednesday April 10^th.

Assigned Readings
Week 2

Pourang Irani, Dean Slonowsky, Peer Shajahan (2006) Human perception of structure in shaded space-filling visualizations. Information Visualization 5(1): 47-61.
Week 3

David C. McCallum, Pourang Irani (2009) ARC-Pad: absolute+relative cursor positioning for large displays with a mobile touchscreen. UIST 2009: 153-156.
Saied Bozorgui-Nesbat (2003) A system for fast, full-text entry for small electronic devices. ICMI 2003: 4-11.
Michael J. McGuffin, Ravin Balakrishnan (2002) Acquisition of expanding targets. CHI 2002: 57-64.
Week 4

Erum Tanvir, Jonathan Cullen, Pourang Irani, Andy Cockburn: AAMU: adaptive activation area menus for improving selection in cascading pull-down menus. CHI 2008: 1381-1384.
Week 5

Christian Holz, Patrick Baudisch (2010) The generalized perceived input point model and how to double touch accuracy by extracting fingerprints. CHI 2010: 581-590.
Xing-Dong Yang, Tovi Grossman, Pourang Irani, George W. Fitzmaurice (2001) TouchCuts and TouchZoom: enhanced target selection for touch displays using finger proximity sensing. CHI 2011: 2585-2594.
Daniel Vogel, Patrick Baudisch (2007) Shift: a technique for operating pen-based interfaces using touch. CHI 2007: 657-666.
Daniel Wigdor, Clifton Forlines, Patrick Baudisch, John Barnwell, Chia Shen (2007) Lucid touch: a see-through mobile device. UIST 2007: 269-278.
Patrick Baudisch, Gerry Chu (2009) Back-of-device interaction allows creating very small touch devices. CHI 2009: 1923-1932.
Week 6

Amy K. Karlson, Benjamin B. Bederson: One-handed touchscreen input for legacy applications. CHI 2008: 1399-1408.
Anne Roudaut, Eric Lecolinet, Yves Guiard: MicroRolls: expanding touch-screen input vocabulary by distinguishing rolls vs. slides of the thumb. CHI 2009: 927-936
Xing-Dong Yang, Edward Mak, Pourang Irani, Walter F. Bischof: Dual-Surface input: augmenting one-handed interaction with coordinated front and behind-the-screen input. Mobile HCI 2009.
Week 7

Daniel C. Robbins, Edward Cutrell, Raman Sarin, Eric Horvitz: ZoneZoom: map navigation for smartphones with recursive view segmentation. AVI 2004: 231-234.
Benjamin B. Bederson, Aaron Clamage, Mary Czerwinski, George G. Robertson: DateLens: a fisheye calendar interface for PDAs. Interactions 11(4): 9-10 (2004).
Sean Gustafson, Patrick Baudisch, Carl Gutwin, Pourang Irani: Wedge: clutter-free visualization of off-screen locations. CHI 2008: 787-796.
Pourang Irani, Carl Gutwin, Xing-Dong Yang: Improving selection of off-screen targets with hopping. CHI 2006: 299-308.
Week 8
No classes

Week 9

Jaime Ruiz, Yang Li, Edward Lank: User-defined motion gestures for mobile interaction. CHI 2011:197-206.
Andrew Bragdon, Eugene Nelson, Yang Li, Ken Hinckley: Experimental analysis of touch-screen gesture designs in mobile environments. CHI 2011:403-412.
Tsung-Hsiang Chang, Yang Li: Deep shot: a framework for migrating tasks across devices using mobile phone cameras. CHI 2011:2163-2172.
Mahfuz Rahman, Sean Gustafson, Pourang Irani, Sriram Subramanian: Tilt techniques: investigating the dexterity of wrist-based input. CHI 2009: 1943-1952.
Barrett Ens, David Ahlström, Andy Cockburn, Pourang Irani: Characterizing user performance with assisted direct off-screen pointing. Mobile HCI 2011: 485-494.

Week 10

Why is the keypad arrangement different for a telephone and a calculator?

Keyboard Trivia

Assignments
Assignment #1 is due on Friday February 1^st.
Assignment #2 is due on Wednesday February 27^th.
Assignment #3 is due on Friday March 15^th.

March 21^st: Check the project deliverables for what is expected from the project.

Project

Project is due on Friday April 5^th.

Impementing a context-aware system.

Your project consists of building a context-aware application for allowing visitors access to information on the UofM campus. A context-aware application typically 'pushes' information to the user based on their location. You need to (A) implement the most important tasks you identified during the prototype phase, in assignment #3. Along with those, you need to (B) build your application to handle the following tasks:

Ability to see buildings in proximity to current location.
Ability to obtain information about such buildings, such as who built it, when it was built, what departments exist in the building and any other supplementary information that you are able to provide about the building.
Ability to see a map with dots showing each building in your database.
Ability to search for specific departments and having the display show the search criteria on the map.

Finally, you need to (C) implement a solution you have identified for one of the following mobile UI challenges:

Input occlusion ('fat-finger')
Limited display

End-user testing:
You should ask 2-3 users to use your application before submitting it. In particular you should ensure that your solution to either challenge, 'finger occlusion' or 'limited display' works properly.

Demo:
As with A2 and A3, you will need to demo your project outcomes to the TA.

Presentations

The list of presentations provides the assignment of a paper to each group. Please find your paper online to prepare for your talk.

Also, please consult the presentation guidelines for clear instructions on how to prepare your slides and talk.

Group 1: Sensing techniques for mobile interaction: Hinckley, K., Pierce, J., Sinclair, M., Horvitz, E. UIST 2000, pages 91-100.
Group 2: Sensor synaesthesia: touch in motion, and motion in touch. Hinckley, K., Song, H. CHI 2011, pages 801-810.
Group 3: Bricks: laying the foundations for graspable user interfaces. Fitzmaurice, G.W., Ishii, H., Buxton, W. CHI 1995, pages 442-449.
Group 4: Sensetable: a wireless object tracking platform for tangible user interfaces. James, P., Ishii, H., Hines, J., Pangaro, G. CHI 2001, pages 253-260.
Group 5: The World through the Computer: Computer Augmented Interaction with Real World Environments. Rekimoto, J. and Nagao, K. UIST 1995, pages 29-36.
Group 6: ARQuake: An Outdoor/Indoor Augmented Reality First Person Application. B. Thomas, B. Close, J. Donoghue, J. Squires, P. De Bondi, M. Morris and W. Piekarski, ISWC, 2000, pages 139-146.
Group 7: First Steps Towards Handheld Augmented Reality. D. Wagner and D. Schmalstieg ISCW 2003, pages 127-135.
Group 8: Map navigation with mobile devices: virtual versus physical movement with and without visual context. M. Rohs, J. Schöning, M. Raubal, G. Essl and A. Krüger, ICMI 2007, pages 146-153.
Group 9: Lumino: tangible blocks for tabletop computers based on glass fiber bundles. Baudisch, P., Becker, T., and Rudeck, F. CHI 2010, pages 1165-1174.
Group 10: Tangible bots: interaction with active tangibles in tabletop interfaces. Warming, P. E. and Hornbæk, K. CHI 2011, pages 2975-2984.
Group 11: The Haptic Tabletop Puck: tactile feedback for interactive tabletops. Marquardt, N., Nacenta, M. A., Young, J. E., Carpendale, S., Greenberg, S., and Sharlin, E. ACM ITS 2009, pages 85-92. (focus on video and primary contribution)
Group 12: Nenya: subtle and eyes-free mobile input with a magnetically-tracked finger ring. Ashbrook, D., Baudisch, P and White, S., ACM CHI 2011, pages p2043-2046.

Groups and Grades

All assignment work will be done in groups. Please consult the list of groups to see when you need to present.

Android Development

You can download the following projects to get a start. Unzip the files and load the project file in the Eclipse IDE.

Various online resources will be made available here:

Eclipse IDE Configuration for Android Application Development - Tutorial on YouTube

iPod Development

Various online resources:

C#.NET/XML

Various online resources:

XML resources:

Videos

Videos from current mainstream HCI conference proceedings will be used for contrasting the implications of various theories presented in class. They will also serve to discuss the latest developments in the field of HCI and will allow students to relate the course material to current research trends. Watching the videos for technical innovations will be a key component of the course.

Acknowledgements

Course notes and material from the following researchers were used in preparation for this course: David Scuse, Saul Greenberg (University of Calgary), Colin Ware (University of New Hampshire), Ben Shneiderman (University of Maryland), Keith Andrews (Graz University) and Ravin Balakrishnan (University of Toronto).